CW: drug abuse, sexual assault, prostitution
Sold as a nonfiction thriller about the scandals in the late 2010s about USC, Bad City is a behind the scenes look by Paul Pringle, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist. There was a tip that came into the Los Angeles Times involving Dr. Carmen Puliafito, the head of the University of Southern California's medical school. As the investigation went on, the journalists found not just one scandal, but two, and how far the USC network actually ran.
I was really excited to read about this book since it was touted as a thriller. Unfortunately, it did not live up to that aspect for me. The book is well written, but it was definitely not something that I was excited to pick back up again after I put it down. It is interesting to see how investigative journalists work, and how well researched it was. It just seemed like the second and possibly third scandal they talked about were much more compressed than the main story that was advertised.
Sold as a nonfiction thriller about the scandals in the late 2010s about USC, Bad City is a behind the scenes look by Paul Pringle, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist. There was a tip that came into the Los Angeles Times involving Dr. Carmen Puliafito, the head of the University of Southern California's medical school. As the investigation went on, the journalists found not just one scandal, but two, and how far the USC network actually ran.
I was really excited to read about this book since it was touted as a thriller. Unfortunately, it did not live up to that aspect for me. The book is well written, but it was definitely not something that I was excited to pick back up again after I put it down. It is interesting to see how investigative journalists work, and how well researched it was. It just seemed like the second and possibly third scandal they talked about were much more compressed than the main story that was advertised.