You are not in peril if you do not spend the price of three Starbuck's coffees and do not download Bob Woodward's new book Peril to your kindle. Do not buy it. We are going to use a technical legal term here- it sucks. Unless that is, you are interested on reading on and on and on about President Biden's budget negotiations over a Covid aid package and West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin's demands the bill have a $300.00 and not $400.00 cap on unemployment payments (spoiler alert: At one point Manchin, a democrat, was so upset with the Biden white house he said "they can kiss my ass." Double spoiler alert- the bill is passed). Want to know how much President Biden agonized over the decision to remove all troops from Afghanistan? (Spoiler alert- some, but maybe not as much as you might think) then maybe you will like this book.
Chairman Miley of the Joint Chiefs of Staff gets a lot of play (spoiler alert- he thinks Trump is "batshit crazy) and the normal craziness of the Trump WH is covered, but nothing ground breaking, as other books have covered this- earlier and better.
The writing stinks. It is short and clipped- for example: Trump was irate. Don't worry Giuliani and others assured him, we still have another play.
Mike Pence.
That's how it plays out on the page. The space. The new line. The name of the VP.
To repeat- the book breaks no new ground, The writing is weak. During two unprecedented years in our nation's history, Woodward has somehow stumbled on the boring stuff. Woodward is trading on his good name.
If you want to read the really good books on the dysfunction of Trump in his last years, try "I Alone Can Fix It" by Washington Post reporters Carol Leonning and Philip Rucker and/or Landside, by Michael Woolf, who has other books on the Trump era, including Fire and Fury and Siege. Each of these books (I Alone Can Fix It and Landslide) provide excellent insight to the Trump response to the pandemic (weak, disbelieving, and disheveled) and his defense of his second impeachment (unbelievably dysfunctional).
Read Peril at your own peril.