The Shark's Protégé

After six years as a newspaper journalist and thirty-eight years as a lawyer, Bob Rothman starting writing novels. His debut novel, A Terrible Guilt, was published in September 2024. In the 1970s, Bob reported on the resumption of capital punishment and later, as a lawyer, led a legal team representing a death row inmate in his habeas corpus proceeding. He has served on the American Bar Association Board of Governors, as Chair of the ABA Litigation Section, and as Chair of the ABA Death Penalty Representation Project. Bob lives in Georgia, and his favorite vacation spot is Asheville, North Carolina, an eclectic community in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, the home of Thomas Wolfe. He loves it for its extraordinary variety of artists, musicians, restaurants, and breweries.