Membership

Paid for by the people who read it

Defuse takes no money from governments, parties or advertisers. Membership opens with the first film. Join the founding list now and your price is fixed for as long as you stay.

Reader

Free
for as long as you like
  • The weekly letter: one case each week
  • The first story of every case
  • The ledger of reforms
  • Each film on the day of public release
Get the letter

Member

$9
a month, or $90 a year
  • Every case, complete: story, interpretation and method
  • Every film before release, with the sources behind it
  • The monthly briefing on what changed and where
  • The full archive, and a say in which case is filmed next
Join the founding list

Founding Circle

$500
a year, limited to 300 places
  • Everything a member receives
  • A live session with the author each quarter
  • Your name in the credits of the series, if you wish
  • A signed first printing of the book
  • Pays for one translated edition to be given away free
Reserve a place
The founding list

Reserve your place

No card is taken today. When membership opens you will get one email with a link to join at the founding price. If you change your mind, ignore it.

Where the money goes

Three things, in this order

The films. Research, script, illustration and sound for each case.

The Reform Index. A sourced, country by country record of the law as it stands, kept current.

Translation. Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Indonesian and French editions of the cases, given away free to the readers for whom they matter most.