GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER

Authoritative account of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, from the lead commissioner of the UN investigation team.

On December 27, 2007, after a major election rally in Rawalpindi, a suicide bomber fired shots at former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and detonated explosives strapped to his chest. In a country ruled more often by military dictators than by elected governments, Bhutto offered a secular, democratic hope. Her assassination tore the country apart, destabilizing the entire region. Leading an international inquiry, Heraldo Muñoz delved into the murky world of Pakistani politics and the infamous Bhutto family. His year-long investigation frames a story of betrayals, corruption, foreign influence, turbulent politics, and unsolved political assassinations—all of which led to the death of the country’s leading politician. With impeccable research and insight, Muñoz situates Bhutto in a surprisingly deep, decades-long history of cross-cultural ties and the emergence of global terrorism, pinpointing the assassination as a moment of great and lasting change. The author of A Solitary War and the award-winning The Dictator’s Shadow (Basic Books, 2008), Heraldo Muñoz is former Chilean ambassador to the UN and now assistant secretary general in charge of Latin America and Caribbean for UNDP. He lives in New York City.