Twenty four year old José Domingo Gómez Rojas died on September 29, 1920, after two months in police custody. Why and how did Gómez Rojas--the "young hope of Chilean poetry," as Pablo Neruda would call him--end up dead in police custody? In his impassioned and deeply researched book, The Cry of the Renegade, Raymond B. Craib brings alive the roiling streets of Santiago in the interwar years. ... Craib tells a romantic story of martyrdom, while always being especially careful not to romanticize it, and of how a kind of radicalism of another era tried to face down a world looking far too much like our own ... without ever falling into the traps of presentism. ... At the same time, he provides a compelling and complex account of anarchism, which is far more attractive, far more radical, and far more open -- especially to other currents in the' capacious Left' -- than any presented by its current acolytes in geography.