I found it strange that the audiobook did not include the notes that were mentioned at the end that provided alternatives to the stories that were used here, especially as Keefe makes clear at the end that he is not a historian and this is narrative nonfiction. After realizing about a third of the way through that this was not published as a history book and that Keefe left journalism to work in the Pentagon as a policy advisor to the USA Defense Secretary before writing Say Nothing, I started to wonder why readers should trust his opinion on which tales were more likely true over others. As a work of narrative nonfiction, it could have had better flow. Listening to the book, it gave the impression that it wanted to be taken as solid history despite the holes in source material available and the potential prejudices of the author.