Just Revenge

Behind the wheel of his car, 74-year-old Max Menuchen, biblical scholar, holds his breath. He waits until the eight-year-old boy steps from the curb into the intersection. A split second later, man and car are bearing down on the terrified child. The weeks that follow find press and public in shocked speculation: what moved the mild-mannered academic to commit so monstrous a crime? The answer lies buried in a mass grave in the woods of Lithuania, where a family was slaughtered by a Nazi officer named Marcellus Prandus. Fifty-five years after the defeat of the Nazis, one mans search for vengeance culminates in a crime both awful and inspired. Now, in a trial that captivates and horrifies the world, celebrated trial lawyer Abe Ringel of The Advocates Devil mounts the defense of his career, and questions whether the most frightening of human passions, revengecan be reconciled with justice. The Advocates Devil (Warner, 1994) was featured in USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, and the Boston Globe, and Dershowitz appears regularly on television as a legal commentator. There are over 418,000 hardcover and mass market (Warner, 1995) copies in print. Dershowitzs autobiography, Chutzpah (Little, Brown and Company, 1991), was a #1 New York Times bestseller and sold nearly 185,000 hardcover copies. Advance praise for Just Revenge: Just Revenge is fascinatinga sort of moral page-turner which provokes thought even as it touches the heart. In fiction, as in the law, Alan Dershowitz is a national asset. Ü Richard North Patterson, bestselling author of Degree of Guilt

Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard University.