Kevin Moore

This one is as impossible to put down as Game of Thrones. Probably the best-written and definitely the best-narrated book of its type. However ... the problem with this type of access journalism is that to get a detailed view of Trump, Rudy, Meadows, Pompeo, Patel et al, they had to whitewash William Barr, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and Pence. It's a Faustian bargain to give those sources an incredibly undeserved image rehabilitation in exchange for their first-hand observations of Trump. The only positive portrayals of Executive Branch insiders that pass the smell test are Fauci, and especially General Milley--both genuine American heroes of the highest order. The authors bend over backwards to paint a fair-and-compassionate portrait of Trump but it's physically impossible for even the most diehard MAGA fan to come away from this with even a molecule of respect for the guy in spite of the authors' ardent attempts to humanize him. But a 5-star review should end positively, so I'll go back to the narrator, January LaVoy. She's absolutely brilliant and the way she does Trump is absolutely uncanny. Not dramatized, not over-the-top, but she gets deep into his head. It's a female voice with no attempt to caricature him, but the personality and emotion she puts across ring utterly true and real. She puts you right in the Oval Office and right in his head, and once you start listening, there's no stopping.