Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
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- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 11 weeks on the list, peaked at #2
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Our view
Investigative reporting with the pull of a thriller: “Catch and Kill” tells how the Weinstein story was pursued, and who tried to bury it. Ronan Farrow describes the pressure on NBC News, a private intelligence firm and the move to The New Yorker, and writes with respect about the women who spoke. Even after the press coverage it surprises some readers, and some find its detail of abuse and institutional corruption hard to read.
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About the book
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators is a 2019 book by the American journalist Ronan Farrow. He recounts the challenges he faced chasing the stories of Harvey Weinstein's decades of rape, sexual assault, and sexual abuse of women and the case against him. Farrow argues that Weinstein was able to use Black Cube, a private Israeli intelligence service, to successfully pressure executives at NBC News to kill the story there, leading him to take it to The New Yorker, where it was published and helped spark the international #MeToo movement exposing sexual abuse, mostly of women, in many industries.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.9 across 283 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 66% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Rankings average of 8.2. That is how 8.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.8 | 15 | 5% |
| Hardcover | 8.9 | 268 | 95% |
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