Antonio R. Bazán has practiced Criminal Law for the past 43 years. He initiated his professional career as a solo practitioner successfully representing a considerable number of murder cases. One of his closing arguments on behalf of a defendant was permanently included in Jacob Stein’s book “Closing Argument, The Art and The Law” as a “Specimen of Eloquence.” For the next three decades he worked as a federal prosecutor with the United States Attorney’s Office, District of Puerto Rico where he also tried a great number of cases involving violent deaths. In his tenure as a prosecutor he held the positions of Chief, Violent Crimes Unit, Chief, Death Penalty Unit and retired as a Senior Litigation Counsel. He has lectured to students at diverse universities and law schools and provided training to agents at several federal law enforcement agencies and the Puerto Rico Police Department. He was also selected to provide trial practice training to prosecutors in South America. The author is also an accomplished violinist and for several years during the Christmas season, with the help of a U.S. Magistrate and amateur musicians, presented the “Bring A Toy Concert” changing the atrium of the United States District Court into an improvised concert hall to collect quality Christmas presents for orphan children confined at various government institutions.
Warbird
by Antonio R. Bazan
Warbird
by Antonio R. Bazan
Published Sep 25, 2014
275 Pages
Genre: FICTION / Legal
Book Details
A superb legal thriller spiced with adventure and romance
Leopold, a middle age, workaholic prosecutor is sent on a forced vacation after two fellow agents are killed in action during a narcotics interdiction. In the midst of his recovery, he purchases a WW-II fighter aircraft for leisure flying and gets involved in a turbulent, short-lived romantic affair with Rita, a ravishing millionaire. Upon returning home to continue his professional endeavors, his aircraft is reassembled and he aids fellow ICE pilots in a new mission, where an unfortunate mistake leaves him charged with a death penalty eligible offense. Rita returns to his aid, but unwittingly brings Enzo Briganti, Leopold’s nemesis, to represent him in trial. To add to the already chaotic situation, Briganti reveals a scandalous conflict of interest, threatening to negatively affect the outcome of the trial.
Book Excerpt
The old scrawny man removed a large padlock from the doors of the barn and slowly opened them like he was about to reveal a religious artifact. Arbanz stood petrified in admiration as sunlight clashed against the olive drab ghost that appeared to be awakening from its eternal sleep. The shinny, arrow like red spinner with the three blade black propeller and meticulously painted yellow tips was gleaming in the sun and appeared ready to turn at any moment. The brilliant red shark mouth painted on the cowl, with its sharp white teeth was as menacing as the eyes painted on each side of the cowl, right behind the spinner. This was the vivid image of a fierce and vicious ancestral beast ready to devour its victim. This airplane still had the menacing look of the fighter aircraft designed to instill fear in the hearts of people. Certainly not a museum piece, it was more like something you would use to reach out to touch somebody you hated with a passion. An object of brutal beauty, the proverbial Warbird.