The Extraordinary Rendition of Vincent Dellamaria: A Political Fiction [Hardcover] [Feb 11, 2011] Walker, Jack

Vincent Dellamaria grew up in Queens New York, the son of Sicilian immigrants. When he was tapped to be a Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 2001, he tacitly consented to be guided by the Administration's neoconservatives on major cases. Years later, Dellamaria's former college roommate, Patrick O'Connor, a law school dean, found out about Dellamaria's corrupt deal from a former CIA agent. O'Connor organized a team to kidnap Dellamaria in order to break his corrupt connections. Through a combination of psychotherapy, conversation, and soul-searching, Dellamaria grudgingly came around. A year after the snatch, the kidnappers covertly returned Dellamaria to Washington and the Supreme Court, just in time for him to participate on five major cases: abortion, torture, gay marriage, Miranda warnings, and the Pledge of Allegiance.

Jack Walker grew up in an Irish and Italian section of The Bronx in the 1950s and 1960s. After graduating from Notre Dame and Harvard Law School, he practiced law in the Los Angeles office of a global law firm for 32 years. Before law school, Jack served as a Marine infantry officer and spent a year in Vietnam. He brings these intense personal experiences to bear in this political novel, as the principal characters wrestle with the moral, personal, and political challenges of a major crime - the kidnapping of a Supreme Court Justice.