I'm convinced. ( )

A good, if necessarily inconclusive (and, thus, frustrating) account of the plane crash that killed the U.N. secretary general and the subsequent investigations. ( )

I was very excited to read this book about the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjold in the Congo in 1961. I found that Mr. Somaiya was meticulous in his details of the years of investigation of Dag's tragic death. Some world powers wanted to know what happened in September 1961, and many did not. In fact they buried intelligence information. At the end of the book I was no clearer as to what happened than what I thought before I started. The meticulous detail that was in the book went nowhere. I realize that this is non-fiction and the whole thing wth Dag Hammarskjold is still not clear, it would have been nice to see somewhat of a closure. I was disappointed with the lack of resolution of this vey tricky situation. Too much detail and not nought "ah-ha" moments. ( )

A good general history of the death of Dag Hammarskjold and the several investigations around his death. ( )

I got this book from NetGalley for a honest review
This book followes the death of Dag Hammarskjöld. He died in a plane crash, and the reason of the crash is still disputed. In this book there are new evidence about the case, according to the blurb. I am very into true crime, and I have never heard of this case before, so I wanted to know more about this book and the case. My issue with the book was the huge infodump at the beginning. It was 100 pages of information and history before we got to the actual crash. I don’t think that it was nesesairy to have this amount of information. We even got a history of the Congo, which I don’t think contributed to the story. The first 100 pages also reads like a fiction book. It was like a biography of Dag Hammarskjöld. If this would be condensed into a chapter of 2, it would be better into my opinion. Give me some backstory on this guy, but not his entire life story. I was waiting for the crash to happen and for the investigation to start for quite a while. In the second half of the book, it got really interesting, as then the investigation stars. I really liked the investigation into his death, and the crash. I also learned a lot about Congo, even though I don’t think the info is nesseasary. ( )