Some People Need Killing: Memoir of Murder in the - A Memoir of Murder in the Philippines

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'' BEST BOOKS OF 2023
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST''S BEST BOOKS OF 2023
ONE OF THE NEW YORKER''S BEST BOOKS OF 2023
''A journalistic masterpiece'' David Remnick, New Yorker

My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I don''t wait very long.

Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three decades later, in the face of mounting inequality, the nation discovered the fragility of its democratic institutions under the regime of strongman Rodrigo Duterte.

Some People Need Killing is Evangelista''s meticulously reported and deeply human chronicle of the Philippines'' drug war. For six years, Evangelista chronicled the killings carried out by police and vigilantes in the name of