The Trials of Zion, Alan M. Dershowitz
The Trials of Zion, Alan M. Dershowitz
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The Trials of Zion
A Novel

Author: Alan M. Dershowitz

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 10 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/02/2010


Synopsis

A shocking act of terror brings the Middle East to the point of explosion. As the resulting political conflict threatens to erupt, a young Jewish American lawyer joins the defense team of an arrested but possibly innocent Palestinian. Soon the lawyer's father, a famed criminal attorney, must win the Palestinian's case or risk losing his daughter forever. To do so, he must take into account the tormented history of the Holy Land from every possible angle.

The Trials of Zion combines the tension of the greatest courtroom dramas with the action of a fast-moving thriller, all set against the colorful backdrop of one of the most complex cultural settings in the world. Filled with memorable characters, this novel offers listeners not only compelling suspense but a panoramic view of the history of a beloved and bitterly contested land, and a sharply controversial perspective on the sources of—and the possible solutions to—the world's longest and most crucial international crisis.

About Alan M. Dershowitz

Alan M. Dershowitz is a Brooklyn native who has been called "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer" and one of its "most distinguished defenders of individual rights." He is the author of more than thirty works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Trials of Zion, Rights from Wrongs, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Chutzpah. Alan is also an emeritus professor of law at Harvard Law School.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Peter on October 21, 2010

What an odd book. The Trials of Zion is supposed to be a thriller set in near contemporary Israel...there are bombings, assasinations, trials, religious factionalism and lawyers and double crosses plus a number of set history pieces delivered by one character as 'history is important' moments. The p......more

Goodreads review by Hermien on April 17, 2017

It's American so everything is a little bit "supersized" but if you go with the flow this is an intriguing story in an interesting setting.......more

Goodreads review by Cym on November 21, 2010

Imagine that your precious only daughter has just graduated from law school and seems enchanted with a young Palestinian that she worked with in law school. The young man has invited her to come to Israel to work on the defense of a Palestinian accused of triggering a bomb in a prominent Israeli hot......more

Goodreads review by Paul on October 13, 2017

Set in the midst of the perennial tensions of the Middle East, this novel by one of the most well known Harvard law professors finds a young Jewish American lawyer (herself the daughter of a famed defense attorney) joining the defense team of an arrested but possibly innocent Palestinian that is cha......more

Goodreads review by Amy on March 29, 2023

Having just attended a lecture by the author, I was curious to read this novel. A thriller that kept my attention, but I found some aspects far fetching.......more