Gre­go­ry J. Wal­lance is a lawyer and writer in New York City. He is the author of Papa’s Game, about the theft of the French Con­nec­tion hero­in, which received a non­fic­tion nom­i­na­tion for an Edgar Allan Poe Award (The New York Times: ​“a col­or­ful account [and] an inside look at an inter­est­ing, if ugly, peri­od in the his­to­ry of law enforce­ment.”); Two Men Before the Storm: Arba Crane’s Rec­ol­lec­tion of Dred Scott and the Supreme Court Case That Start­ed The Civ­il War (The Boston Globe: ​“an evoca­tive his­tor­i­cal nov­el”); and Amer­i­ca’s Soul in the Bal­ance: The Holo­caust, FDR’s State Depart­ment, and the Moral Dis­grace of An Amer­i­can Aris­toc­ra­cy (Jew­ish Book Coun­cil: ​”An impor­tant con­tri­bu­tion to the debate sur­round­ing the Roo­sevelt Admin­is­tra­tion and the pol­i­tics of res­cue. Reads like a thriller”).