Murder Without Borders: Dying for the Story in the World's Most Dangerous Places - Tapa dura

“I am not interested in why man commits evil; I want to know why he does good.” — Vaclav Havel

What makes a poor, small-town journalist stay on a story even though she has been threatened with certain death, and offered handsome rewards if she looks the other way?

Over three years, Terry Gould has travelled to Colombia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Russia and Iraq – the countries in which journalists are most likely to be murdered on the job – to attempt to answer this question. In each place, through conversations with their colleagues, their families and in some cases their murderers, he uncovers the lives of local reporters and broadcasters who stayed on a story to the point of death. He searches for the moment in which each of his protagonists understood that they were willing to die, and finds complex reasons for their bravery. In his wonderfully vivid portraits of nine courageous souls, he brings their lives and the stories they worked on to light, telling truth to those who would murder truth tellers.

Terry Gould is a Brooklyn-born investigative journalist who focuses on organized crime and social issues. He has won 46 awards and other honours for his reporting. His previous books are Paper Fan: The Hunt for Triad Gangster Steven Wong and The Lifestyle: A Look at the Erotic Rites of Swingers, both published by Random House Canada. He lives in Vancouver.