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On March 24, 1980, the assassination of El Salvador’s Archbishop Óscar Romero rocked that nation and the world. Regardless of the efforts of many in El Salvador and beyond, those accountable for Romero’s murder remained unpunished for their heinous crime. Assassination of a Saint is the thrilling story of an international team of lawyers, private investigators, and human-rights experts that fought to bring justice for the slain hero. Matt Eisenbrandt, a lawyer who was once a part of the investigative team, recounts on this gripping narrative how he and his colleagues interviewed eyewitnesses and former members of death squads even as on the lookout for evidence on people who financed them. As investigators worked toward the one court verdict ever reached for the murder of the martyred archbishop, they uncovered information with profound implications for El Salvador and america.