The Art of Political Murder

In 1998 Bishop Juan Gerardi presented a report documenting the Guatemalan military's responsibility for 80% of the atrocities committed during the civil war. Two days later he was bludgeoned to death in his garage. Goldman — a Guatemalan American journalist — spent years investigating the murder, navigating death threats, military obstruction, and a justice system under siege. The result is one of the great works of narrative journalism in the Americas — a murder mystery that becomes a dispatch about how impunity works, how evidence gets buried, and what it costs to pursue truth in a country that has decided truth is too dangerous.