Just revenge
By: Alan M. Dershowitz
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Jews -- Lithuania -- Atrocities -- Fiction; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Fiction; Revenge -- Fiction; Massachusetts -- Fiction; Lithuania -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.

"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?"--BOOK JACKET.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.