This is not an easy read for several reasons. It is poorly structured, repetitive and would be more effective in half the size. The author's tone is this memoir is often shrill to the extent of having a nervous breakdown on the page. This, too, gets tiring.
But this story is so terrifying and so obscene with regard to how this country is supposed to work, the wonder is not that the voice is shrill but that it's even audible after all the government put this woman through. Maybe, in the end, this woman's victory is reason for hope but I found the book depressing nonetheless. So we've come to this.
The gist of the story is this: Lindauer was part of an intelligence team that warned the government about 9/11. She even told friends to avoid NYC because "something big" was coming that probably would involve airplanes, the World Trade Center, and even nuclear weapons. Maybe the latter addition was too extreme to digest the rest. At any rate, obviously the warnings were ignored. The story begins with the extreme measures taken by the government to shut Lindauer up about revealing her warnings: imprisonment, claims of mental illness, an attempt to prescribe involuntary psycho-drugs. Friends and non-mainstream journalists, including a powerful attorney in her family (an uncle), and a judge who stuck to the law, all banded together to save her. But it was a close call.
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| Lindauer in prison |
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