On January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University in Beirut and a respected scholar of Middle East politics, was shot in the back of the head as he stepped out of an elevator on his way to work. At the time, the chaos of Lebanon s civil war made it was impossible to investigate who had carried out the killing and why. Seventeen years later, armed with the knowledge of who had been responsible for the assassination and supported by the Anti-Terrorism Act passed by Congress in 1996, his family came to a painful consensus that nonviolent justice through the rule of law...