"an absorbing, minute-by-minute account of the assassination, what led to it, and the savage revenge taken on the assassins, their colleagues and families. Diederich tells of CIA complicity, first with Trujillo, later with those who killed him." -- Publishers Weekly "Trujillo was a man of overweening vanity, cruelty and vulgarity. He perverted the group around him so effectively that after his death his supporters were able to feed a prisoner suspected of anti-Trujillo activities with the flesh of his own son [and] brought him his son"s head on a plate. He died of a heart attack on the spot. Mr. Diederich tells the story of the assassination of Trujillo by a group of conspirators. A veteran reporter for Time magazine, he has a masterly gift for keeping the story running rapidly and vividly, while at the same time keeping a tight hold on the threads of the tangled plot."-- Financial Times "Superb ... A painstaking documentary thriller."-- New Society "It is an excellent book, that any reader who wants to be informed about Trujillo should read. I have used information the book provides because it"s an excellent reportage about the killing of Trujillo. ... Investigating reporting which reads like a riveting police mystery. A fascinating book." -- Mario Vargas Llosa, author of "Feast of the Goat", Miami Herald