It is a bit of a trope to start a review but saying 'this is a book that everyone should read', but here we go: this is a book that everyone should read. Not just because is well-reported, addresses such an important topic, and does so from an interesting perspective, although these are all good reasons. It also manages to conveys the scale of migration, violence and deaths in the Mediterranean, without losing sight of the fact that every unit in the statistic is a person. They have lives, and they are not perfect, but they are human and it is appaling that they are not treated as such. And not just migrant people, but also policemen, social workers, layers, journalists, us: all implicated. Most of the time not evil, but also not innocent. End of preach.