“This powerful book is a reminder of the price countries pay for flawed choices”

– THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

“An excellent account”

– THE ECONOMIST

“This shattering tale of savagery lifts the veil

and helps us understand”

– NOAM CHOMSKY

“A parable of the World, the Flesh, and the Devil”

– THE SPECTATOR

(best summer reading 2011)

“Weiss provides harrowing details, as well as insight”

– FOREIGN AFFAIRS

(book of the day, April 2016)

“A striking account”

– THE SUNDAY TIMES

“Unpicks the roots of the problem”

– THE LITERARY REVIEW"

“Tightly-written, clear-eyed, a riveting cautionary tale.

A must-read”

– JON LEE ANDERSON

New Yorker staff writer

“A compellingly readable account...

scrupulously even handed”

– GARETH EVANS

fmr Australian Foreign Minister

“Some of the best coverage of Sri Lanka”

– NICK BRYANT (BBC)

“Essential reading”

– THE AUSTRALIAN

“Deeply informed, humane and compassionate… a beautifully articulated insight into the human experience.”

– THE INTERCEPT

(Best Summer Reading List 2015)

“A knockout blow. No wonder the government had it taken off the shelves; it does not want you to read it”

– THE ISLAND (Sri Lanka)

“Painstakingly researched and referenced study... he lines up his targets carefully, then picks them off with surgical precision”

– THE SCOTSMAN