Governing Truth is a fascinating and rigorous account of how NGOs shape the adoption, implementation, and ultimate impact of truth commissions. Against the conventional wisdom that national governments drive the adoption and design of truth commissions, Zvobgo makes a persuasive case that these processes are transnational, powered by a global network of civil society groups that trade leadership and support roles at different stages. The theorized ‘burden sharing model’ is a genuine contribution, extending transnational advocacy theory beyond policy adoption into institutional design and implementation. This model likely travels beyond the study of transitional justice, offering scholars a new concept for understanding the interaction between national and international advocates. The book's real strength is the care with which it lays out a genuinely complicated policy process, marrying original data on truth commissions to interviews with officials, commissioners, and advocates across three robust case studies in Guatemala, South Africa, and Timor-Leste. The argument opens productive questions. The South Africa case raises the specter of governance substitution, where NGOs assume functions that properly belong to the state. This process has potential long-term implications for state authority, legitimacy, and learning beyond the transitional justice realm. Escaping Justice admirably refuses to uncritically accept civil society’s role in transitional justice while calling into question the normative responsibility that advocates bear in the search for justice.