His book represents a well-documented version of this history. It is a journalist's version. The emphasis is on readability and on creating and maintaining reader interest. In general these are good things. Even a bare recitation of events makes this case something of a page turner. Allowing for McCartney's substantial skills with journalistic license this is page turner reading. Mr. McCartney may not have the best legal case for some of his linkages and he may not be perfect in reproducing the record. Given that even the best academic historians can disagree on the facts, it is for the best academic historians to define McCartney's errors and rule on the relative fatal effects of these errors against the totality of the book.