Extraordinary Rendition

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

EDUCATED AT BOWDOIN AND Cornell, Paul Batista is one of the leading criminal defense trial lawyers in America. He is also one of the country’s most familiar and widely known television personalities, with hundreds of appearances on Court TV, MSNBC, and CNN over the last fifteen years. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. He is the author of several legal textbooks, including Civil RICO, the leading treatise on the federal racketeering law, now in its third edition. His poetry has appeared in such leading literary magazines as Poetry International, Pegasus, Press, and Parnassus. He served in the United States Army in the early 1970s. An avid marathon runner, he lives in New York City and Sag Harbor, New York. Death’s Witness was his first novel.