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Catch and Kill

Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

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Catch and Kill

By: Ronan Farrow
Narrated by: 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.

2020, LA Times Book Prize, Short-listed

©2019 Ronan Farrow (P)2019 Hachette Audio UK
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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)
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)
Reads like a thriller ...The reveal in Catch and Kill is not that there are corrupt people; it's that corrupt people are in control of our media, politics, and entertainment and that, in fact, many of them remain in control (Rebecca Traister)
The year's best spy thriller is stranger - and more horrifying - than fiction . . . He weaves a breathless narrative as compelling as it is disturbing . . . bracingly exposes the rot that's persisted across elite American institutions for decades (David Canfield)
Catch and Kill is exhaustively reported . . . and compulsively readable, with nearly every page revealing a provocative detail about a household name in media or entertainment (E. J. Dickson)
I have rarely read a more compelling account of the systematic reality of sexual harassment in the workplace. Things might be slowly changing but this book shows that the culture that normalises abusive behaviour remains pervasive and owes its persistence to the insidious ways in which it downplays the emotional toll this has on women (Luigi Gioia)
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An interesting and important book that races along at an entertaining pace. Somewhat distracted and perplexed by the author's use of terrible accents and his attempts at female voices in the narration.

Great book, laughable narration

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wow and he does all the accents and voices too more of a drama than a audio book and I loved it !

there are a lot of characters to keep up with

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text message from an Italian woman read in mock female voice and italian accent. It feels like mocking even though i know it is not.
I admire the courage of Ronan, he is very good writer. I listened to this book during my working hours pretending to my boss that i was listening to nature sounds to focus better. i coud not "put it down ".

no need to do the voices and accents

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A brutally honest, vital and eye opening story, told with incredible painstaking detail by Ronan Farrow

Incredible and eye opening

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I don’t know much about the author, but how the people who worked on this book with him let him do the voices of every character baffles me.
Hearing him describe sexual assault in an embarrassing Spanish accent make my skin crawl, same with his cringe worthy English accents, Middle Eastern accents and the rest, was PAINFUL. I almost had to give up on this book.
Would recommend reading this rather than listening to it, yikes.

Interesting subject matter, terrible performance

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