(Sorry to the mods here, I've deleted this comment I listened to the audiobook and really enjoyed it for the most part; I've read a couple of Cline's books before and consider him and Israel Finkelstein my favorite Biblical archaeology writers (from my limited, layperson perspective), but I had never read a book specifically about the Collapse until now.
Most fascinating anecdote: that most of the tin that fueled the Bronze Age came from Afghanistan, though I've
The book really felt like it was more a primer for laypeople (again, like myself) on the general Late Bronze Age Near East through the lens of the Collapse, rather than a book solely focused on the Collapse itself (for example, I didn't feel like the chapters on Hittite-Mycenean hostilities and the possibility of archaeological evidence for the legend of the Trojan War added much to the overarching story of the Collapse, even if it's an interesting refresher on the history).
It's most likely that there just isn't enough archaeological evidence to contruct enough of a story to fill a pop history book, which makes me wish there could be some sort of publishing model of novella-length popular history.