Book Reviews
“[Webb’s] epic story, faithfully examined by Nick Schou, will never died until all the secrets he tried to probe are revealed.”
—Tom Hayden, 1960s revolutionary & author of the Port Huron Statement
“Kill the Messenger is a great book -- smart and eminently fair -- about the pitfalls tough, aggressive journalists like Gary Webb face when breaking stories that question the myths that the mainstream media feeds us. If America's major newspapers had spent ten percent of the time they did going after the CIA as they did in destroying Gary Webb's career, journalism could once again be a profession to be proud of.”
— Joe Domanick, author of To Protect to Serve: The LAPD's Century of War in the City of Dreams
“Gary Webb was the epitome of journalistic guts…Here is the story, brilliantly if sadly told, of the reporter who unmasked one of the most evil conspiracies in American history.”
—Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz
“Nicholas Schou manages -- amazingly -- to penetrate four decades of silence….The result is a mind-blowing scrap of found history, like something buried deep in the earth -- and you cannot avert your eyes….With Orange Sunshine, Schou has crafted a definitive history of the dark side of the 1960s.”
―Los Angeles Times
“The Weed Runners is brilliant journalism - vivid, exciting and important. Schou has the rare gift of making complicated topic fully human - it lives and breathes in this book. If you want to understand where this country is in the so-called War On Drugs, The Weed Runners is a must read."
―Don Winslow, author of Savages and The Kings of Cool
“Spooked is a concise and convincing essay on the nastiness of the CIA and the power it wields over American media, other government bodies, and in the end our national perception."
― Oliver Stone