{"product_id":"some-people-need-killing-a-memoir-of-murder-in-my-country-9780593133132","title":"Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy--told through harrowing stories of the Philippines' state-sanctioned killings of its citizens--from a journalist of international renown \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Tragic, elegant, vital . . . Evangelista risked her life to tell this story.\"--Tara Westover, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eEducated\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJournalist 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome People Need Killing\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Duterte's war on drugs--a war that has led to the slaughter of thousands--immersing herself in the world of killers and survivors and capturing the atmosphere of fear created when an elected president decides that some lives are worth less than others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book takes its title from a vigilante whose words seemed to reflect the psychological accommodation that most of the country had made: \"I'm really not a bad guy,\" he said. \"I'm not all bad. Some people need killing.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA profound act of witness and a tour de force of literary journalism, \u003ci\u003e Some People Need Killing\u003c\/i\u003e is also a brilliant dissection of the grammar of violence and an important investigation of the human impulses to dominate and resist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593133132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Patricia Evangelista","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43096074453173,"sku":"9780593133132","price":27.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_557308ca-42b5-46ec-8110-6e218cccd421.jpg?v=1692801713","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/some-people-need-killing-a-memoir-of-murder-in-my-country-9780593133132","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}