Truesteye’s Reviews > Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster > Status Update

The book keeps up the pace even though the content can weigh you down. Nuclear fallout and Soviet bureaucracy is a lethal combination.

The soviet bureaucracy threatened to derail the book as well, as shear number of names and titles can slow the book down. Specially when all the names sound soviet and bearers of the name act in a very soviet manner. But apart from that half of a chapter this is thrilling stuff. And written from a very neutral point of view, you feel bad for everyone involved in this catastrophe.