RaveThe NationAn enthralling history of a human rights movement whose mission remains as urgent as ever ... Reads like a Cold War thriller, replete with betrayals, intrigue, and elaborate schemes .. Deft ... Cathartic, even exultant ... Lays bare the limits of truth and reconciliation.
Jefferson Morley
RaveLos Angeles Review of BooksA consistently engaging and sometimes riveting history ... Scorpions’ Dance takes its time getting to Watergate, and by then, the reader can’t help but feel that the burglary and its subsequent cover-up are among the administration’s lesser abuses of American democracy ... We may face a new set of threats to American democracy, but works like Scorpions’ Dance remind us that this democracy has always been something of an illusion.
Vincent Bevins
RaveJacobin... riveting ... As a polemic, The Jakarta Method is never anything less than conscientious and persuasive, but Bevins’s book truly takes flight as a work of narrative journalism, tracing the history of America’s violent meddling in Southeast Asia and Latin America through the stories of those it brutalized ... In perhaps the most chilling passage of the book, Bevins asks the head of Sekretariat Berasama ’65, an advocacy group for the victims of Indonesia’s purges, how the United States won the Cold War. His answer is simple: \'You killed us.\'
