USA Today best-selling author Paul Batista is also a criminal defense lawyer, a TV personality, and the author of Civil RICO Practice Manual, the leading book on the federal racketeering statute. Death's Witness is his debut thriller novel and precedes Extraordinary Rendition, The Borzoi Killings, Manhattan Lockdown, The Warriors, and Accusation. Batista is a veteran of the United States Army and lives in Sag Harbor and New York City, NY.
This well-crafted legal thriller has the feel of the real, because it was written by a first-rate lawyer who is also a very good writer. --Alan Dershowitz, author of Preemption: The Knife That Cuts Both Ways Batista, in a word, is wonderful here, guiding his readers skillfully and assuredly through a complex plot. Death's Witness is Exhibit A for the proposition that Batista is as much a winner at writing as he is at defending. --Bookreporter Death's Witness is an outstanding debut novel --BookPage The verdict on Batista's debut legal thriller: guilty of delivering not only sharp courtroom drama but steamy romantic escapism as well. --Publisher's Weekly