Operation Massacre
Published on 1. August 2013
272 pages
978-1-908699-52-7 (ISBN)
Description
A LATIN AMERICAN TRUE CRIME CLASSIC IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME On the evening of 9th June 1956 in an apartment in Buenos Aires, a dozen men were arrested on suspicion of plotting against the Argentine government. A few hours later, the local police chief received the order to execute them. Almost all were innocent. Operation Massacre recreates the events of that night and its aftermath in dramatic detail, from the horrifying, botched execution to the author’s successful efforts to track down the survivors and bring the perpetrators to justice. Pre-dating Capote’s In Cold Blood by over a decade, Operation Massacre is the original work of modern true crime. Walsh combines a passion for the truth with a novelist’s flair for storytelling. This - his most celebrated work - is a masterpiece of reportage, admired by writers as diverse as Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Márquez.
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Content
- Intro
- Review
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Map
- CONTENTS
- PROLOGUE
- Part One: THE PEOPLE
- 1. CARRANZA
- 2. GARIBOTTI
- 3. MR. HORACIO
- 4. GIUNTA
- 5. DÍAZ: TWO SNAPSHOTS
- 6. LIZASO
- 7. WARNINGS AND PREMONITIONS
- 8. GAVINO
- 9. EXPLANATION IN AN EMBASSY
- 10. MARIO
- 11. "THE EXECUTED MAN WHO LIVES"
- 12. "I'M GOING TO WORK ."
- 13. THE UNKNOWNS
- Part Two: THE EVENTS
- 14. WHERE IS TANCO?
- 15. VALLE'S REBELLION
- 16. "WATCH OUT, THEY COULD EXECUTE YOU ."
- 17. "CHEER UP"
- 18. "CALM AND CONFIDENT"
- 19. MAKE NO MISTAKE .
- 20. EXECUTE THEM!
- 21. "HE FELT HE WAS COMMITTING A SIN"
- 22. THE END OF THE JOURNEY
- 23. THE SLAUGHTER
- 24. TIMES STANDS STILL
- 25. THE END OF A LONG NIGHT
- 26. THE MINISTRY OF FEAR
- 27. AN IMAGE IN THE NIGHT
- 28. "THEY'RE TAKING YOU AWAY"
- 29. A DEAD MAN SEEKS ASYLUM
- 30. THE TELEGRAM GUERRILLA
- 31. THE REST IS SILENCE .
- Part Three: THE EVIDENCE
- 32. THE GHOSTS
- 33. FERNÁNDEZ SUÁREZ CONFESSES
- 34. THE LIVRAGA FILE
- 35. BLIND JUSTICE
- 36. EPILOGUE
- 37. ARAMBURU AND THE HISTORICAL TRIAL
- APPENDICES
- PROLOGUE TO THE BOOK EDITION
- INTRODUCTION
- OBLIGATORY APPENDIX
- PROVISIONAL EPILOGUE
- EPILOGUE
- PORTRAIT OF THE DOMINANT OLIGARCHY
- OPERATION IN THE MOVIES
- OPEN LETTER FROM A WRITER TO THE MILITARY JUNTA
- NOTES
- GLOSSARY
- AFTERWORD
- FOREWORD
- TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION
- ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
- About the Author
- Copyright
