Joyce hannam biography

The book "The death of Karen Silkwood" is a story about a carcrash that instantly kills Karen. Afterwards the book continiues with the story of Karen Silkwood. Karen is a woman who works in a factory, in this factory they work with radioactive radiation like uranium. It is a very dangerous job because she has to work with this radiation. Every time she quits work she has to be scanned to see if traces of radiation are still on her hands, if this was the case an alarm would ring, and she would have to be washed against their will. When Karen started working in the factory the alarm would rarely ring, people would even be scared if it rang. But after a while the alarm started to ring more often, and more and more people would be taken away. Karen to was once taken away after the alarm rang, this is the time she started realising that the factory wasn't safe anymore. Karen Also realised that her bosses didn't concern themselfs with the safety of the factory or that of the workers, their only concern was with making money. Karen grew tired of this and she wanted to revolt, she joined the factory's headcommission. She wanted to improve the safety of the factory, so she contacted Pete, who had agreed to help her. She only needed to steal some photo's and negatives out of the factory to prove that the radioactive radiation was dangerous to the workers. She managed this for a couple of months until she had enough evidence to prove her case. The conditions in the factory kept getting worse and worse, when it was Karen's turn to be scanned the alarm rang a few more times. The bosses of the factory convicted her of uranium theft, she herself didn't know anything about this and she was innocent. A couple of days before this happend she had called bete to meet, she put the negatives and the photos in a brown envelope and went on her way in her car, to meet pete at the agreed place. But she never arrived at this place, she crashed her car, and died instantly, the brown envelope was never found.

I wanted to read this book based on my opinion of the title and the summary. I thought the book was going to explain the death of Karen and the investigation. The book disapointed me because it told the story of the factory, and even those pieces weren't very interesting.
I wouldn't recomend the book, especially if you exiting books. The book is open ended which doesn't tell you anything more. You are encouraged to seek answeres, answeres the book never give you.