I have always loved those documentaries where journalists venture into extremely complicated areas or situations to shine a light on what’s going on (war zones, red zones, criminal organizations, places under corrupt/highly restrictive governments, etc). I would love to read some books about this, either fiction or non-fiction! Please suggest.
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Under the Banner of Heaven. Anything by Krakauer, really.
The Killing Fields, 1984
All the President’s Men
The Year of Living Dangerously
Seconding All the President’s Men. Also Artyom Borovik’s the Hidden War. HE was a journalist embedded in the Soviet army during their invasion of Afghanistan. It’s almost poetic in its descriptions. Very good read.
Patrick Radden Keefe is an investigative journalist who has written a few amazing full length books – and you can definitely tell they’re written by a talented journalist, not just some standard nonfiction research. In Extremis by Lindsey Hildum is a good biography about a war correspondent who was killed in Syria in 2012.