"There is perhaps no more succinct and authoritative account of pivotal events in recent Latin American
history."
--The Washington Post.
Penguin Putnam Web Site, January, 2002
Summary
Award-winning journalist Tina Rosenberg spent five years in Latin America--drinking coffee with hit men and
sunbathing with death-squad financiers--to understand people for whom violence is a way of life. Her six vivid
and haunting portraits illuminate the human face of violence, not only in Latin America, but all over the world.
