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Catch and Kill

Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

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Catch and Kill

Av: Ronan Farrow
Berättare: Ronan Farrow
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In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost.

In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move and weaponizing an account of abuse in his own family.

All the while, Farrow and his producer faced a degree of resistance that could not be explained - until now. And a trail of clues revealed corruption and cover-ups from Hollywood, to Washington, and beyond.

This is the untold story of the exotic tactics of surveillance and intimidation deployed by wealthy and connected men to threaten journalists, evade accountability and silence victims of abuse - and it's the story of the women who risked everything to expose the truth and spark a global movement.

Both a spy thriller and a meticulous work of investigative journalism, Catch and Kill breaks devastating new stories about the rampant abuse of power - and sheds far-reaching light on investigations that shook the culture. Gewalt in der Gesellschaft Journalisten, Redakteure & Verleger Kunst & Literatur Politik & Regierungen Sexualverbrechen Sozialwissenschaften Spionage True Crime

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[A] scoop-filled book, part reporting memoir, part spy thriller . . . Riveting and often shocking . . . Catch and Kill has gone off like a hand grenade in the world of New York media . . . compelling
A thriller. My word, you thirst for more . . . Catch and Kill is a rip-roaring account of the years spent chasing the Weinstein story and its spin-offs. It's a deep dive into the world of US media, Hollywood pay-outs, Donald Trump's eccentric ways, spies and spineless editors. And is it gripping . . . The page-turner, as illustrated by Farrow's Weinstein confrontation, is dripping with jaw-dropping revelations and moments of astonishing pathos . . . Farrow's reporting is incredibly rigorous. He has spoken, he said, to over 200 sources. It's evident in the book; the breadth of the story is staggering. He has the private eyes and the NYPD, the accusers and the whistleblowers. It's a rollicking read; I found myself laughing out loud, aghast, at the details, or else reading out segments to colleagues. Not since Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury - an eye-watering account of life inside the White House, in the first months of the Trump presidency - has a book so comprehensively lifted the lid on something so troubling
Farrow knows he has a humdinger of a story, but he also has a nuanced appreciation of how women are smeared and discredited, of how the lines dividing news and show business have blurred . . . lively and wide-ranging
Extraordinary . . . As some American critics have already observed, Farrow's narrative has the pace of a thriller . . . Farrow's book captures the terror and paranoia that eat away at Weinstein's victims for the simple reason that he comes to experience them himself, a human mirror. The producer's sphere of influence extends ever outwards, like the powerful arms of some giant squid (Rachel Cooke)
Meticulous and devastating . . . Catch and Kill is part All the President's Men, part spy thriller
Moves at a brisk pace, feeding readers each revelation in real time, interspersed with personal notes that make the stories stick (Claire Landsbaum)
Read this book . . . Farrow's greatest success was to listen, believe and act, even at his own peril (Maria L. La Ganga)
Absorbing . . . The behavior documented in Catch and Kill is obviously and profoundly distressing . . . But there are some hopeful threads, too (Jennifer Szalai)
Darkly funny and poignant . . . a winning account of how it feels to be at the centre of the biggest story in the world. It is also, of course, a breathtakingly dogged piece of reporting, in the face of extraordinary opposition (Emma Brockes)
At the heart of every great noir is a conspiracy of evil that imbues the initial crime uncovered by the hero with a weightier resonance than was immediately obvious. So it goes with Catch and Kill (Emma Bruenig)
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It's a great book and Ronan reads it well. Wish he wouldn't do voices...

Great Book, slightly annoying read

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Essential listening for the importance of persistent journalism. Such horrific abuses of power and cover ups. I couldn't stop listening to it.

Riveting and Disturbing

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Ronan Farrow is a genius. His reporting and writing are compelling. This is an important piece of journalism. And yet I cannot for the life of me understand why someone let him do these embarrassing accents and voices for the people in his book. It immediately took me out of the experience. it's pure cringe. Also, the edits are sloppy, with the volume going up and down with the quality of the recording. Sometimes it sounds like he's recording in a closet on an iPhone, and seconds later it's clear that he's back in the studio on a proper microphone. Why does a book this important have such an amateurish audio version?

Brilliant Story; Baffling Performance

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If it were a print book, I’d say it was ‘unputdownable’. A stunning story well told with empathy and humour.

Binge-listened this incredible story in one weekend

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an extraordinary piece of the artof invesigative journalism! it juts shows once again, why investigative journalism is so absolutely vital for society! I cannot imagine the will and determination, being percictent to an unimagiable extent. there is something deeply ironic that a man was needed to break the horrific system of exploit, abuse and supression, crerated and sustained by men.
my only critic: the author should have let the reading to people who do this for living. at so many places it is stated once and again, how importan it is for the stories of these women to be heard and the magnitute of both their stories and their courage to be appreciated, the reading unfortunatelly drags one completelly abrupt out of the experience and more often than not makes a mockumentary out of the documentary.

with that being said, still one of the historic pieces of investigative journalism wich without a doubt had changed the narrative and the way things happen for better and hopefully, once and for all.

a historical work in investive journalism

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