This one, as with "Under the Banner of Heaven," is less about Krakauer than is subject. He certainly gets his viewpoint across in a few spots, but there aren't lengthy digressions into his own past as found in "Into Thin Air" or "Into the Wild."

I say it's worth a read. It's pretty clear in the book (and from most other sources on the subject now) that the military lied about Tillman's demise, knew it was lying about his demise, and used its initial statements to score political points that it really didn't need to score at the time. Someone should have been court-martialed.