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.
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.\'
