I listened to this one as an audiobook and found it fascinating but hard to hear. Reilly reported on Jan. 6 insurrectionists for NBC, so the book is intensively researched, but a bit slow getting started; I’m not sure we needed the incident itself recapped in excruciating detail again. The significance of Reilly’s reporting is in the story of those armchair investigators who tracked down the identities of the rioters—those who didn’t announce their names over a bullhorn or cut commercials for their realty businesses, that is—using film footage, social media, and fake Bumblebee accounts (too funny). Incidentally, the book offers some concerning takeaways that haven’t yet been addressed. One was the unforgivable unpreparedness of the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies to take action on intelligence *before* Jan. 6, which may relate in part to the second takeaway: the sympathy of some in law enforcement for those willing to take law into their own hands. Finally, the absolute lack of seriousness of many of the rioters whose interest in fucking things up would be trivial and laughable if not for their willingness to use violence to do it when surrounded by the protection of a mob. Many of those shouting “1776” at the Capitol couldn’t articulate any other reason beyond “Donald Trump told me to,” and when challenged by prosecution quickly blamed the incident on antifa or claimed they were misled or benighted. Reilly’s reporting allows the reader to see these frauds in all their glory; one that sticks out in my mind was the FBI employee who had changed his gender identification on his official paperwork for no other reason than to confuse and ridicule his own organization. People like this, with no respect for institutions or themselves, will make this country unlivable for a generation.