DESCRIPTION : On May 30, 1961, a hail of bullets ended the life of Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, known to his countrymen as « The Goat » for his many revolting excesses, after thirty-one years of brutal rule over the Dominican Republic.

This book is a riveting, minute-by-minute account of the plot to kill Trujillo, who was then the Western Hemisphere's most ruthless dictator, and the ferocious wave of revenge that ensued before his regime collapsed. The book also reveals the vacillating role of the United States — and the CIA — in first propping up the dictator, and then supplying weapons to slay him.

Bernard Diederich knew most of those involved in the plot, and painstakingly recreates the events in a gripping book that reads like a novel, which also offers essential insights into the history of a troubled Caribbean nation.

CONTENTS

Author’s Note Chronology Cast of Characters 1. The Death of the Goat 2. No Witnesses 3. A Tyrannicide Is Born 4. Caribbean Tempest 5. The Fellow Who Knows 6. Enter the CIA 7. Found : A Godfather 8. Such Good Women — So Defenseless 9. The Plot Quickens 10. Rehearsal for Assassination 11. An Ordinary Tuesday 12. The Hunt Is Up 13. The Snare Is Set 14. The Kill 15. A Corpse But No Coup d’Etat 16. General Pupo’s Lost Hour 17. Zacarias Shows Up 18. Pedro Livio Is All Right 19. No Connection 20. The Corpse Appears 21. The Arrest of Bishop Reilly 22. Ramfis’s Return 23. The Roundup 24. The Death of Antonio de la Maza 25. Interrogation 26. Traitor in the Family 27. Hacienda Maria Massacre 28. Aftermath Persons Killed in the Aftermath of the Trujillo Assassination