Engrossing and enraging ... Blockers deviates in some ways from a typical Michael Lewis story. In books like Moneyball and The Big Short, Lewis delved into esoteric topics like advanced baseball statistics and collateralized debt obligations and displayed an almost magical ability to bring obscure figures and organizations to life ... But Blockers is mainly about the triumph of ignorance over curiosity.
A roller coaster ... Lewis adroitly fashions each worker’s story as a different flavor of narrative ... Reads like a political thriller ... Has an unfailing eye for the image that nails the emotional undercurrent of a scene.
The author of Moneyball brings his exceptional narrative skills to bear on Musk’s anti-government crusade ... There are few better suited to the challenge of telling this story than Michael Lewis ... Lewis is great at finding incredible civil servants and telling their stories.