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The Art of Political Murder - Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? (Paperback, Main)
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The Art of Political Murder - Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? (Paperback, Main)
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The first nonfiction book from acclaimed novelist Francisco
Goldman, who began his career as a writer covering the 1980s wars
in Central America for Harper's, The Art of Political Murder is the
story of the murder investigation of a Guatemalan bishop with the
twisting plot and colorful characters of a Graham Greene novel.
Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemala's leading human rights activist, was
bludgeoned to death in his garage on a Sunday night in 1998, two
days after the presentation of a groundbreaking church-sponsored
report implicating the military in the murders and disappearances
of some two hundred thousand civilians. Realizing that it could not
rely on police investigators or the legal system to solve the
murder and bring those responsible to justice, the church formed
its own investigative team, a group of secular young men in their
twenties who called themselves Los Intocables (the Untouchables).
Known in Guatemala as "The Crime of the Century," the Bishop
Gerardi murder case, with its unexpectedly outlandish scenarios and
sensational developments, confounded observers and generated
extraordinary controversy. For seven years, novelist Francisco
Goldman has closely followed Los Intocables' efforts to uncover the
truth; the killing or forced exile of multiple witnesses, judges,
and prosecutors; the brave struggle of the church's legal team; and
the efforts of one courageous prosecutor to solve the case and
bring the killers to justice. Goldman has spoken to witnesses no
other reporter has reached, and observed firsthand some of the most
crucial developments in the case. Now he has produced a tense and
astonishing true detective story that opens a window on the new
Latin Americanreality of mara youth gangs and organized crime, and
demonstrates, on the most human scale, the precarious struggle to
build democratic institutions in a country awash in criminal and
political corruption and violence. Most of all this is the story of
a remarkable group of engaging, courageous young people, and of
their remarkable fight for justice.
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