Paul Batista, a USA Today best-selling author of legal thrillers, 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. Accusation is the sixth of his legal thrillers, following Death's Witness, Extraordinary Rendition, The Borzoi Killings, Manhattan Lockdown, and The Warriors. Batista lives in New York City, NY.