In this no-holds-barred account, the former head of the United Nations in Sudan reveals for the first time the shocking depths of evil plumbed by those who designed and orchestrated ‘the final solution in Darfur’ and why so many good men stood by and did nothing.

A witness to earlier genocides in Rwanda and Srebrenica, and a veteran of wars and humanitarian crises in Bangladesh, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone, Dr Mukesh Kapila arrived in Khartoum in March 2003 having made a promise to himself that if he were ever in a position to stop mass-killers, they would never triumph on his watch.

His resolve was immediately tested as he began learning of atrocities in a part of the country few had ever heard of: Darfur. The insider who blew the whistle and first brought Darfur to the world’s attention shares his story in Against a Tide of Evil.

Kapila’s story reads like a knife-edge international thriller as he risks all to use the powers at his disposal to bring to justice those responsible for the first mass murder of the twenty-first century: the Darfur genocide.

He had to pay a heavy personal price for standing up against powerful vested interests. But unwavering in his commitment, he pushed to get the United Nations Security Council to eventually act, and the International Criminal Court to investigate and indict the then President of Sudan for genocide and crimes against humanity.

Against a Tide of Evil is Kapila’s strident and passionate cri de coeur. It is the deeply personal account of one man driven to extreme action by the unwillingness of those in power to stop mass slaughter.

The book explores what empowers a man like Dr. Kapila to stand up and be counted, and to act almost alone in the face of global indifference and venality. He is the winner of the “I Witness Award” for human rights, the Dr Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award for “moral courage, personal integrity, and passion”, and has been recognised by a special California Legislature resolution “for a lifetime of achievements and meritorious service to humanity”.

Against a Tide of Evil was shortlisted for the Crime Writer’s Association Best Non-Fiction award in 2013.