The Price of Terror: One Bomb, One Plane, 270 Lives, the History-Making Struggle for Justice After Pan Am 103 - Tapa dura

Gerson, Allan; Adler, Jerry

 
9780060197612: The Price of Terror: One Bomb, One Plane, 270 Lives, the History-Making Struggle for Justice After Pan Am 103
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ISBN 10: 0060197617 ISBN 13: 9780060197612
Editorial: HarperCollins, 2001

Sinopsis

President Bill Clinton called it "an attack against America," but after Libyan agents planted a bomb aboard Pan Am Flight 103, killing 259 people in the air and 11 on the ground, America did not strike back. Instead, the grieving relatives of the victims did the unthinkable -- as mere civilians-and tried to force Libya to pay for its crime. Lawyers told the families that they could never sue Libya in American courts, and they were right. This would require changing a bedrock principle of international law -- a change that every government in the world feared and fought, including the United States itself.

Working virtually alone at first, Allan Gerson, a former diplomat and prosecutor of Nazi war criminals, took on the case and spent the next eight years on the families' quest for justice. In this high-stakes game of international power politics and legal maneuvering, there were friendships, jobs, and reputations lost, but a precious principle -- that of accountability under the law -- was strengthened and preserved. Now Gerson and his co-author, NEWSWEEK writer Jerry Adler, follow the threads of this extraordinary tale back to that deadly night over Lockerbie, Scotland -- and forward into a new era of international justice, when terrorists will learn to fear the righteous retribution of their own victims.

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Reseña del editor

A riveting narrative traces one man's ardent quest for justice for the victims' families of the terrorist attack on Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in a court of law, which paved the way for U.S. citizens to hold foreign governments accountable for terrorist acts. 10,000 first printing.

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Editorial
HarperCollins
Año de publicación
2001
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0060197617
ISBN 13 
9780060197612
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
322
Contacto del fabricante
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