Loved Challenger by Adam Higginbotham for its forensic reconstruction of institutional collapse? Let Lights Out by Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann satisfy that craving.

If Challenger turned you into a devotee of forensic reporting—memos, board minutes, and testimony assembled into a rising case—Lights Out channels that same investigative rigor into the boardroom. Gryta and Mann reconstruct GE's collapse with internal documents and employee interviews, building a procedural portrait of institutional failure where each small, incontrovertible fact tightens the noose. Like Higginbotham, they translate complexity without compromising nuance, making financial engineering and industrial operations intelligible to wonks and generalists alike.

The pacing mirrors what hooked you: sober restraint, novelist's tension, no sensationalism. Culture maps to catastrophe, managerial hubris cascades into real harm, and humanity persists even in damning accountability—moral clarity without caricature.

You'll leave smarter about how corporate power fails, with clear takeaways about governance you can actually use.