Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

TIME'S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR - A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Patricia Evangelista's searing account is not only the definitive chronicle of a reign of terror in the Philippines, but a warning to the rest of the world about the true dangers of despotism--its nightmarish consequences and its terrible human cost.'--Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain 'Tragic, elegant, vital . . . Evangelista risked her life to tell this story.'--Tara Westover, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Educated 'A journalistic masterpiece'--David Remnick, The New Yorker For six years, journalist Patricia Evangelista documented killings carried out by police and vigilantes in the name of then president Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs--a crusade that led to the slaughter of thousands--immersing herself in the world of killers and survivors and capturing the atmosphere of terror created when an elected president decides that some lives