Catch and Kill

This is a riveting story of the reporting Ronan Farrow did for the story on Harvey Weinstein's predatory assaults on women that was ultimately published in the New Yorker. Of course, it includes the story of finding witnesses and sources for his information and persuading them to talk to him candidly, when many of them had signed non-disclosure agreements. It also covers the story of how NBC, his news agency and employer, tried to get him to stop covering the story, and how he was followed and watched by private investigators with ties to Mossad.

This book is very readable. Farrow has an engaging voice and an excellent sense of pace. Since he was an active part of the story he's telling, he includes his own thoughts and actions from the time in his narrative, so it's a bit like a memoir. It's also a bit like a hard boiled detective novel or a crime thriller, because the crimes are so egregious, the lengths Weinstein was willing to go to cover them up were extreme, and his influence seemed to reach everywhere. The whole story is horrifyingly over the top.