I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. 
 I knew nothing about Karen Silkwood before reading this book (despite a movie! with Cher! with Meryl Streep!), and since reading it, I've found myself rattling off all kinds of things about Karen Silkwood, about plutonium and uranium and cover-ups. Much of the information in here was very interesting, and the comparison made with Edward Snowden in the preface is definitely food for thought. 
 But. 
 And it's a big but. 
 The story is tedious. I felt like I needed an index of names to pop back to every few pages. There were so many national agencies, private companies, journalists, investigators, scientists, workers at Kerr-McGee, and the names would come up randomly and then disappear for fifty pages or so, that it was difficult to keep track. So look--I understand it's non-fiction, and facts and names, etc., can't just be glossed over. I'm not calling into question the veracity of the reporting, but I do wish for said facts to be arranged in a way that is more interesting and palatable for the reader. This book is arranged chronologically, and I had the same sense of frustration I once had in a Latin American history course, where the continent was studied by time, not by region or theme. With a chronological arrangement attempting to cover what everyone in all aspects of this investigation is doing at once, sometimes completely independent of each other, what is essentially the most important information does not bear appropriate weight. It's constantly competing with other information that may turn out to have little importance at all. 
 I think I will watch the movie, though.