The Assassination of Maurice Bishop (Ian Randle Publishers), a gripping and chilling book by Belizean author Godfrey Smith, is a detailed account of the final days of the charismatic leader of the Grenada Revolution, killed in October 1983 under circumstances that traumatised a generation of Caribbean activists. Drawing on archival research and extensive interviews, some with witnesses who had never before told their stories, Smith offers an elegantly written and much-needed history of one of the post-Independence Caribbean’s pivotal events.