A vivid, journalistic reconstruction of the final days of Romania’s communist regime that pieces together eyewitness testimony, official documents and archival research to narrate the chaotic overthrow, hurried trial and execution of the dictatorial couple; the book explores the political maneuvers, popular uprisings and security-force actions that culminated in a violent, controversial end, while probing the moral, legal and historical questions raised by that swift collapse and its impact on the nation’s transition.