"In 1999, Carla Del Ponte answered the United Nations' call to become the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. In her new role, Del Ponte confronted genocide and crimes against humanity head-on, struggling to bring to justice the highest-ranking individuals responsible for massive acts of violence in Rwanda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Kosovo." These tribunals have been unprecedented. They operate along the edge of the divide between national sovereignty and international responsibility, in the gray zone between the judicial and the political. Madame Prosecutor is Del Ponte's courageous and startling memoir of her eight years spent striving to serve justice by fighting the immunity that powerful criminals and political figures too often enjoy.