The first biography of Rodrigo Duterte, the murderous, unpredictable president from the Philippines, a fascinating, fearsome man as well as the embodiment of populism inside our time.

Rodrigo Duterte was elected President from the Philippines in 2016. In his initial eighteen months in office, 12,000 people were murdered on the roads, gunned down by police officers and vigilante citizens-all along with his encouragement.

Duterte is a serial womaniser and a self-confessed killer, who has called both Barack Obama about Rodrigo Duterte: Fireplace and Fury in the Philippines and Pope Francis ‘sons of whores.’ He’s on record as stating he does not ‘give a shit’ about human rights. Yet he’s beloved of the 16.6 million Filipinos who voted for him, viewed as vulgar but honest, a breath of fresh air, and an iconoclastic, anti-imperialist rebel.

Through interviews with Duterte himself, his sister, daughter and son, two former presidents, old friends, death squad hitmen, and relatives of his victims, Channel 4 News’s Asia Correspondent Jonathan Miller shows that definately not the media cartoon from the Godfather, John Wayne, Hugo Chavez, and Donald Trump rolled into one, Duterte is a sinister, harmful man, who should not be taken lightly.