Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. First edition - A defense lawyer's account of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing trial. "On a snowy day in February 1993, a massive car bomb nearly toppled the World Trade Center. Four Middle Eastern men were quickly arrested and charged with the crime. Precht was a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society Federal Defender Division in Manhattan, handling routine cases as a public defender. He was surprised to be appointed defense attorney to the chief suspect, Mohammad Salameh, and challenged as never before by the media circus that this major terrorism trial would prove to be. The events and personalities of the trial make for gripping reading, but equally compelling are Prechts observations on the forces arrayed against fair trials for accused terrorists." Illustrated with photographs. Notes, suggested reading. xi, 178 pp.