More Terrible Than Death is a gripping work that maps the dramatic new relationship between the United States
and Colombia in human terms, using portraits of the Colombians and Americans involved, the author's experiences
in Colombia as a writer and human rights investigator and an insider's analysis of the political realities that
shape the expanding war on drugs and the growing U.S. military presence there. Looking at the war from the ground
up, interviewing and profiling human rights activists, guerrillas, and paramilitaries to explain how it has changed
their lives, Robin Kirk gives depth and meaning to the headlines that leave unexplained the intimate dimension
of the U.S./Colombian relationship.