simpson, claus von bülow. fears no one in the courtroom, that's obvious, but he doesn't fear the blank page either. he's a very prolific and talented author. his latest offering, the novel the trials of zion. here's alan dershowitz. alan dershowitz, you have written quite the thriller and the page-turner here, so i don't want to give anything away, but i do note that the main character is a super lawyer living on boston who has a daughter, and the daughter at some point comes into peril, and all of that is described so sincerely, i couldn't help but wonder, you the boston super lawyer, do you have a daughter, and have you fantasized in this way about something happening to her? - well, i do have a daughter, and the main character lawyer's name is abe ringle--ringle is my mother's maiden name--and abe is kind of a variation on my hebrew name, avraham--abraham--so the character is loosely based on me, and the character of emma is loosely based on my daughter ella, who is a little younger, not yet out of law scho