Hunting Che: How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World’s Most Famous Revolutionary
This revealing account of Che Guevara’s ill-fated guerrilla campaign in Bolivia in 1967 and his capture and excecution by U.S.-aided Bolivian forces offers a new perspective on the iconic revolutionary’s last days. Weiss is an investigative journalist for the Associated Press, and Maurer is the coauthor of No Easy Day (2013), which described the mission to track and kill Osama bin Laden. Their description of the molding of the Bolivian units into an effective fighting force by U.S. Green Berets is engrossing, and they provide a detailed account of the final hours of Che’s life. In particular, his interrogation by the admirable Bolivian officer Gary Prado is strangely sad and moving, as Che is both reflective and intransigent. --Jay Freeman