Robert E. Kass is a Detroit-based lawyer and author of three highly-acclaimed non-fiction books.

To Save the Nation is his long-awaited first novel. It was inspired by actual events which occurred in the 1970s while Kass was a young attorney practicing in an international law firm in Brussels, Belgium.

His initial motivation in writing this book was to raise public awareness of the disappearance of tens of thousands of people which took place in Argentina in the 1970s, so that they would not be forgotten.

However, his research has brought him to the current day, where disappearances continue in nearly 100 countries around the world. What started out as a legal thriller has become a tool to draw attention to these human rights abuses. He hopes to provoke a serious conversation about how far a country should go in violating human rights when its leaders believe the nation is under a threat.

Kass is an honors graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and was the recipient of a Fulbright-Swiss University Fellowship to study East-West trade at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

He landed his first position as an attorney in Brussels, where he practiced for five years, serving a multinational corporate clientele. He returned to the U.S. to earn a Master’s Degree in Taxation at New York University.

He then returned to Detroit where he has built a highly regarded practice in estate planning and administration, and planned charitable giving.

A Fellow of the esteemed American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, he serves on the Professional Advisory Committees of numerous charities.

He is a frequent and highly-rated lecturer in continuing legal education programs, as well as to civic and professional organizations. In connection with his previous non-fiction works, he has been quoted in the press, interviewed on radio across the country, and has appeared on local and national television.