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In the 1990s, Detective Louis N. Scarcella was legendary. In a city overrun with violent crime, he cracked the toughest cases, put away the worst criminals, in bare-knuckled street brawls if necessary. “The Hulk'' was his nickname. Then the story changed. Scarcella ran into a group of convicted murderers turned elite jailhouse lawyers. In prison they founded a law firm, and one day made a discovery: Scarcella was the cop who’d helped put many of them away. They made a vow: We gotta get this guy. And with the help of a relentless NY Times reporter they took him down. Thirty years later, 20 people Scarcella helped put away have walked free. The legendary detective is a get-out-of-jail card. In the media he’s the disgraced, rogue cop who hoodwinked an entire system. Really? One cop? We spent hundreds of hours with jailhouse lawyers, the intrepid reporter known as Frenchy, coerced witnesses, outraged attorneys, righteous cops. Scarcella insisted he didn’t do anything wrong. But that’s all he’d say. Until we tracked Louie Scarcella to a sauna in a Russian bathhouse. The guilty have gone free, he whispered. And then agreed to take us into the belly of the beast ... where justice is done (and undone). Welcome to The Burden.

Miriam Lewin is one of Argentina’s leading journalists today. But as a 19-year-old, she was kidnapped off the streets of Buenos Aires for her political activism and thrown into a concentration camp. Thousands of inmates were executed, tossed from a cargo plane into the ocean. Avenger is Miriams’s story, the story of a woman’s struggle to overcome her tortured past, to change her future, and the future of her country. Miriam will survive the camp – one of just a handful of who do – then, as a journalist, she will bring her tormentors to justice.