Just Revenge - Couverture rigide

Dershowitz, Alan M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0446519839 ISBN 13 : 9780446519830

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Dershowitz Alan M

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

One of the foremost courtroom lawyers of his generation. Alan M. Dershowitz takes controversial stands based on the principle of equal justice for all. Along the way, he has authored the #1 New York Times bestseller Chutzpah; the bestselling account of the Claus von Bulow case Reversal of Fortune; and the bestselling courtroom drama The Advocate's Devil. Now Dershowitz has written a novel that is at once personal, passionate, and towering: an explosive legal thriller that pits Dershowitz's literary alter ego, attorney Abe Ringel, against the worst crime of the twentieth century -- the Holocaust.

What if you witnessed the most abominable deeds that human beings can inflict upon each other? What if you came face-to-face with the very man who had slaughtered your family before your eyes? That is the question confronted by a celebrated professor named Max Menuchen. Max has found the man who had killed his entire family in cold blood more than a half century before. Max, who has never before broken a law, cannot turn down his chance for revenge.

In 1943 Marcellus Prandus was a Lithuanian militia captain who carried out the blood-thirsty orders of his Nazi commanders during World War II. Today he is an old man living outside Boston. For Max, who has discovered Prandus's identity by chance, killing him is not enough, because Prandus is already dying of cancer. How can Max make Prandus suffer exactly as Max himself did? Can Max bring himself to assassinate Prandus's children and grandchildren and make the old man watch his family die, as Max himself was forced to do?

By the time defense attorney Abe Ringel enters the case, Max has carried out an astounding act of revenge, and America'sgreat Holocaust trial has begun: an explosive legal and moral struggle to find the light of justice within the darkness of human evil. With Max facing almost certain conviction, Ringel desperately tries to prove his actions we

Revue de presse :

Thought-provoking and ambitious... Both chilling and life-affirming... Full of clever twists, Dershowitz's latest endeavor is intricately plotted (Publishers Weekly)

'Thought-provoking and ambitious... Both chilling and life-affirming... Full of clever twists, Dershowitz's latest endeavor is intricately plotted' Publishers Weekly

Compelling... Will leave readers pondering the morality of revenge right down to the final melodramatic twist (Kirkus Reviews)

'Compelling... Will leave readers pondering the morality of revenge right down to the final melodramatic twist' Kirkus Reviews

Poses a profound and disturbing moral question (New York Times Book Review)

'Poses a profound and disturbing moral question' New York Times Book Review

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Grand Central Publishing
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0446519839
• ISBN 13: 9780446519830
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336