In one of the most harrowing and brave books published this year, Patricia Evangelista, a top reporter in the Philippines at the independent news site Rappler, recounts her years covering the extraordinary number of extrajudicial killings that took place under the rule of former president Rodrigo Duterte between 2016 and 2022. She’s unflinching in bearing witness to the thousands of dead killed under Duterte’s reign of terror, which he claimed was largely focused on drug dealers and users, but which wreaked havoc on almost every part of Filipino society. Evangelista also recounts her own journey, detailing the trauma of this relentless death toll and how it shaped her as a journalist and a person. —Lucas Wittmann
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