About this item

A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy - told through harrowing stories of the Philippines' state-sanctioned killings of its citizens - from a journalist of international renown. "Tragic, elegant, vital . . . Evangelista risked her life to tell this story." - Tara Westover, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Educated. "My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I don't wait very long.". Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three decades later, in the face of mounting inequality, the nation discovered the fragility of its democratic institutions under the regime of strongman Rodrigo Duterte.