[It] helps us better understand why our leaders need to represent the high ideals of our country and when they stray, bad things can and will happen.

Aided by an impressive roster of participants, it provides a clear and enraging picture of the tangled geopolitical dynamics which Khashoggi helped define, and which ultimately ensnared him.

...as much about the complicated, co-dependent and sometimes toxic relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia as it about the man himself.

Kingdom of Silence pinpoints how such inherent cynicism defines America's toxic relationship with the world's biggest oil supplier (Riyadh would have calculated that Washington would be unlikely to retaliate against Khashoggi's death).