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Operation Massacre
Author(s): Rodolfo Walsh (Author)
- Publisher: Old Street Publishing
- Publication Date: 13 Aug. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 1908699515
- ISBN-13: 9781908699510
Book Description
On the evening of 9th June 1956 in an apartment in Buenos Aires, a dozen men were arrested on suspicion of plotting against the Argentine government. A few hours later, the local police chief received the order to execute them. Almost all were innocent.
Operation Massacre recreates the events of that night and its aftermath in dramatic detail, from the horrifying, botched execution to the author’s successful efforts to track down the survivors and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Pre-dating Capote’s In Cold Blood by over a decade, Operation Massacre is the original work of modern true crime. Walsh combines a passion for the truth with a novelist’s flair for storytelling. This — his most celebrated work — is a masterpiece of reportage, admired by writers as diverse as Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Márquez. A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
Editorial Reviews
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DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘Rarely has the ideal of a writer speaking truth to power been more aptly embodied . . . a masterpiece of documentary literature’
‘I’ve read nothing like it. . . Fifty-six years on, this remains journalism at its most incandescently brave.’
‘[A] masterwork, its precision all the more remarkable for the conditions in which it was written’
‘A mesmerising, prophetic tour de force of investigative journalism exposing the pervasive thuggishness of the Argentine military elite . . . A chilling, lucid work, beautifully translated’
‘One of the jewels of universal literature’
‘Brave, committed, dangerous . . . also frighteningly human’
‘Finally, this classic of Latin American literature is available in English! Walsh not only exposes a terrible crime with precise and haunting prose, but establishes, many years before Capote and Mailer, a whole new genre of personal investigative journalism that transcends its immediate circumstances.’
‘A captivating and clear-eyed account’
‘Rodolfo Walsh’s work perfectly synthesized the most hard-hitting journalism with literature of the highest calibre. His example of adeptness and dignity in literary reportage lives on beyond his death at the hands of a military dictatorship.’
‘An act of great journalistic courage.’
