Thanks to AA Knopf for the free copy of this book.

 - BOTTOMS UP AND THE DEVIL LAUGHS is an exploration of the sort of secondary government hiding under the one we know - the organizations and people that are tracking everything that happens electronically here and overseas.
- Howley makes the topic easy to understand. Even if you have only a cursory knowledge of people like Edward Snowden, she writes so clearly and engagingly that it isn’t hard to follow her down the rabbit hole.
- I did find the ending of the book to be abrupt. We jumped very quickly from Reality Winner to Q, without much discussion of how everyday people went from reading news of the whistleblowers to storming the Capitol.