RaveBOMBWhile the premise of the book is that of a thriller—a murder was committed and a writer sets out to find the perpetrator—the facts that Goldman is a novelist, that it takes place in post-Cold War Guatemala, and that it is a work of nonfiction makes for a thriller that crashes through barriers of genre ... Reading the book is to enter a surreal, and very dark labyrinth, a 300-page ride of relentless fear ... The reader understands that for all his finesse, Goldman is not writing a murder mystery to give us the final pleasure of solving the crime at the book’s end. He wrote this book as an angry denunciation, an eye opener to let the world know that the bishop’s killers are free, regardless of the tenacious work of reconciliation and truth committees. Goldman’s message is loud and clear ... Goldman’s book is a testament to both the undeniable existence of political murder and the hope that writing about it will stop it from occurring.
