The idea of the book was intriguing (truth rests not on objective standards but on competing narratives and our evaluation of the plausibility of those narratives), but unfortunately, Malcolm chose a dreadful way to demonstrate it. As she noted repeatedly, none of McGough's legal contacts had much interest in her story, and Malcolm did not succeed in making me care, either about McGough or the issues at hand--an ironic case of hoist on your own petard.