Book Description
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 bloodthirsty 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's great 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
were justified. But this blockbuster trial is careening in a
direction not even Abe can predict, giving new meaning to the
ideas of both justice and revenge.
In JUST REVENGE, Alan Dershowitz fuses his insider's legal
knowledge with the passions of a man who has been personally
touched by the Holocaust. Thought-provoking, brilliantly
human, and undeniably gripping, here is a tale that only Alan
Dershowitz could tell-and that all of us must hear.
