Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow

 There’s nothing like a few lies, a group of foreign spies and a conspiracy to protect sexual predators

 Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow, published by Hachette Book Group.

 Sexual assault is not new—it’s existed since biblical days. As then, it remains very well hidden from view by its victims who, for untold numbers of reasons, feel what happened to them was their fault.

Because that’s what society has told them.

Because that’s what the perpetrator—and those in power who aided and abetted the rapists/abusers in their “careers”—have reminded these victim-survivors again and again in an effort to keep silent.

No more.

 As Farrow and his gutsy, tireless team undertook to seek out, then interview of women assaulted and abused by Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein, he exposed a decades-long cover up by friends and associates. Most actively helped Weinstein continue his abusive behaviors by not taking a stand and say “Enough!”. Others abetted by their silence or looking the other way, thus excusing rape, sodomy, coercion, libel, slander:

Why? Because he could. Because others helped him.

Along the way of Farrow’s exhaustive investigation, the names of other prominent men came to light. Again behaviors were excused, denied, ignored and by the use of something called an NDA—non-disclosure agreement—one more way to keep a woman in her place, and silent. Somehow we’ll never view NBC in quite the same way again. Shame on you Noah Oppenheimer, Andy Lack, Steve Burke and Matt Lauer.

 God bless Ronan Farrow and the women who came forward to speak the unspeakable. Catch and Kill is their story, the anthem of the #MeToo movement.

 On a scale of 1-5, Catch and Kill deserves a 10.

 Kat Henry Doran, Two Wild Women Reviews