Publisher's Synopsis
"Reward takes the reader behind the scenes of the lawsuit Jose Guevara v. Republic of Peru, a dispute about Peru's $5 million reward for the capture of its notorious National Security chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, who was accused of many crimes including extra-judicial killings, extortion and stealing a billion dollars in government money. But what is a case between a Venezuelan and a Peruvian doing in U.S. courts anyway? Isn't there something undemocratic about a U.S. judge deciding how money should be spent from a foreign treasury? The answers to those questions depend upon the law designed to protect U.S. foreign relations the sovereign immunity doctrine, which puts disputes with foreign governments in the hands of diplomats, not judges. Reward provides a guide to the art of persuasion as this tense story unfolds in one of the most difficult cases in Mr. Cymrot's career"--.
