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In December 1981, the inhabitants of a small Salvadoran hamlet were systematically exterminated by the Atacatl Battalion, a US-trained counter-insurgency force. Mark Danner's reconstruction is a masterpiece of investigative journalism.

About the Author

Mark Danner, hailed as 'one of our best, most ambitious narrative journalists' by Susan Sontag, is a long time staff writer at The New Yorker and Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Torture and Truth (Granta Books).