Peril
Author: Bob Woodward and Robert Costa
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages: 482
Price: Rs 799
The titles of Bob Woodward’s three books about the Trump administration — Fear, Rage and now Peril — are appropriately blunt. The books, about the staccato stream of events that accompanied Donald Trump’s time in office, are written at a mostly staccato clip.
The frantic pace is redoubled in Peril, written with Robert Costa, Woodward’s colleague at The Washington Post. Broken up into 72 short chapters, it hurtles through the past two years of dizzying news. The book’s centrepiece is the riot at the Capitol on January 6, and its