DEAD SEASON. A Story of Murder and Revenge on the Philippine Island of Negros

Hardback. The author's investigation of the seemingly senseless killing of a sugarcane worker and his family in the small Philippine town of Himamaylan uncoversd the connections between a series of puzzling deaths: the assassination of the town's most powerful landowner, the shooting of a member of the military's elite corps, and the disappearance of a suspected military informer. In establishing the surprising links between these events, the author captures the dynamics of an entire culture: one mired in atavistic rules and the tangled legacy of colonialism. With Map eps. Notes on Sources + Index. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in f. dw.