--- description: Find out why Catch and Kill is one of the best books of 2019. title: 'Catch and Kill' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2019 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt84bc3de6c3f51757/698a05e1db29870d832647bb/catch-and-kill-ronan-farrow-100-books-2019.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 13, 2019 # _Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators_ Ronan Farrow by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  [_Catch and Kill_ ](https://time.com/5703289/ronan-farrow-catch-and-kill/ "undefined")is a thriller. The fact that it’s all true only makes the story that much more frightening. Ronan Farrow’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on the #MeToo movement for the _New Yorker_—uncovering sexual abuse at the Weinstein Company, CBS and NBC, among other places—already amounts to page-turning prose. But Farrow zooms out to capture the context in _Catch and Kill_, framing the book around his own pursuit of Weinstein and Weinstein’s incredible efforts to bury the story. As he paints a damning portrait of conspiracies, spies and some of the biggest players in politics and media, Farrow makes a compelling argument that in order to stop harassment and assault, we may have to tear down whole institutions. **Buy now:** [_Catch and Kill_](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316486639/ref=as%5Fli%5Fqf%5Fasin%5Fil%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=time-books-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0316486639&linkId=4de693f64cb3522c18045e60ed0d769b "undefined") Catch and Kill: Must-Read Books of 2019 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2019/5724498/catch-and-kill/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2019/5724498/catch-and-kill/"},"headline":"'Catch and Kill' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2019","datePublished":"2019-11-13T14:48:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:34:23.184Z","description":"Find out why Catch and Kill is one of the best books of 2019.","url":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2019/5724498/catch-and-kill/","keywords":["Books","Must-Read Books of 2019"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt84bc3de6c3f51757/698a05e1db29870d832647bb/catch-and-kill-ronan-farrow-100-books-2019.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt84bc3de6c3f51757/698a05e1db29870d832647bb/catch-and-kill-ronan-farrow-100-books-2019.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2019/5724498/catch-and-kill/","name":"'Catch and Kill' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2019"}}]}] ```