Praise

I doubt there’s another journalist quite like her. Even the valiant Marie Colvin had a fixed address in London. Not only that, but Fernández’s prose is so incisive, pithy, powerful, and often funny, I feel like an interloper when trying to convey her words using my own.

– Counterpunch

This is hardcore, down-dirty travel and travel writing. A personal Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. A new and powerful form of nonfiction, a primer.

– The Eurasia Review

One of the most poignant, searing, and, at times, deadpan critiques of the United States and its mass media that I have ever read… An extraordinary and unorthodox travelogue.

– Los Angeles Review of Books

Laced with strychnine …This is not a travel book for the faint-hearted.

– Eurasia Review

Relentlessly practices an endangered, if not nearly extinct, species of journalism: dissident anti-imperialist muckraking.

– Middle East Eye