Kommentar: Bleasdale er en irsk/britisk journalist. Han har dekket konflikten i Kongo siden 1998 og jobber spesielt for å bringe søkelyset til underraporterte menneskerettighetsbrudd. Han vant fotopris for denne boken fra Amerikanske Pictures of the Year International i 2009. “In recent years, no people on earth have suffered as much as the Congolese. … It’s all here in Bleasdale’s extraordinary book: the devestated villages, the child soldiers, the dead and the wounded, the epidemic of rape, the way diseases like cholera have spread in the absence of an effective public health system. Bleasdale also shows us the race for riches that is driving this spiral of destruction.”