Bear Witness
"This riveting book reads like a thriller―two friends trying to prevent murders in one of the most dangerous places on earth. But it’s a true story, about not only the extreme danger they put themselves in, but also the nauseating moral quandaries they faced." — Larissa MacFarquhar, author of Strangers Drowning
"Kurt Ver Beek and Carlos Hernández are possibly the bravest people in the world and among the few who truly understand how homicide works. . . .Bear Witness will be required reading." — Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside
"Superbly reported, rife with vivid human and physical detail, Bear Witness brings us novelistically close to the unlikely pair of heroic justice fighters at its heart." — Francisco Goldman, author of Monkey Boy
Ross Halperin attended Harvard University, worked on Wall Street, led a campaign to reconstruct the library in his hometown, and worked under Mark A.R. Kleiman, one of the world’s leading criminal-justice scholars. He started reporting Bear Witness in 2018 and has since spent much of his time in Honduras.
His publicist is Peter Miller at Liveright; his literary agent is Farley Chase; his film & TV agent is Sean Daily; and if you’d like to contact him directly, through the below form, he will do his best to respond.