Horacio Verbitsky is Argentina's leading investigative journalist, winner of the 1995 Latin American Studies Association Media Award, and author of a dozen books. He also presides over Argentina's main human rights organization, the Center for Legal and Social Studies. He lives in Buenos Aires.

"This book caused a furor...in Argentina, where at least nine thousand of the "disappeared" remain unaccounted for, but its lessons about officially sanctioned atrocities are universal." - The New Yorker "Horacio Verbitsky is one of the world's best and bravest journalists. His account of the atrocities committed by the Argentine military is stupefying. It makes us wonder what those who loudly claim to be fighting terrorism today thought they were doing when they shut their eyes to the horrors he describes." Hugh O'Shaughnessy"

Horacio Verbitsky is Argentina's leading investigative journalist, winner of the 1995 Latin American Studies Association Media Award, and author of a dozen books. He also presides over Argentina's main human rights organization, the Center for Legal and Social Studies. He lives in Buenos Aires.

"This book caused a furor...in Argentina, where at least nine thousand of the "disappeared" remain unaccounted for, but its lessons about officially sanctioned atrocities are universal." - The New Yorker "Horacio Verbitsky is one of the world's best and bravest journalists. His account of the atrocities committed by the Argentine military is stupefying. It makes us wonder what those who loudly claim to be fighting terrorism today thought they were doing when they shut their eyes to the horrors he describes." Hugh O'Shaughnessy"