Elon Musk is, unfortunately for all of us, a consequential person in the world, just not in the way he thinks.

Despite having more money than God and the means to retire comfortably to a tropical island for the duration of several hundred lifetimes, Musk is painfully, embarrassingly, fixated on people's opinion of him, making any quiet enjoyment of his stupendous resources an utter impossibility. Musk and the world are worse off for it.

That's largely what this book is about. One man's myopic pursuit of owning Twitter. This book tells that story, twisty and unbelievable as it is, masterfully. Step by step the authors take you through the billionaires' early interest, his initial efforts, and his disastrous acquisition of the platform. The whole narrative is laid out with the precision of a prosecution case and the told with the verve of a first rate thriller. Despite being recent history that most of us lived through (and were made all too aware of) a thorough, fact based accounting like the one presented here is beneficial.

Unfortunately, an account like this becomes outdated as soon as it's published. Like a war torn country, the devastation that Musk's ego and incompetence wreck on the social media platform and the world at large changes and devolves from minute to minute. God only knows what future follies the world's richest child will perpetrate or how the rest of us will ultimately pay the price for it. One thing is certain though, clear eyed and incisive accounts like the one written in this book are absolutely vital for holding Musk accountable, if only to history.