“Killed to Order” is a work of nonfiction, yet one may find it hard to believe that the book belongs anywhere outside a bookstore’s horror fiction section. Jan Jekielek’s book is a harrowing tale and an urgent cry for justice about one of the largest crimes against humanity since World War II and Mao’s Great Leap Forward. At times, it’s not an easy book to read.
The book tells two related stories. The first gives a chilling overview of China’s billion-dollar organ transplant industry, which is sustained by the industrial-scale murder of prisoners of conscience. At the center of this slaughter are practitioners of Falun Gong, a peaceful spiritual discipline that reached up to 100 million adherents before being marked for eradication by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1999.
