Michael Nava

Michael Nava is the author of the Henry Rios novels for which he was been awarded seven Lambda Literary Awards for best mystery. Lies With Man, the newest Rios novel, was published in April. He wishes to acknowledge Frank Donner’s Protectors of Privilege: Red Squads and Repression in Urban America (University of California Press, 1992) which was an invaluable resource for both his novel and this essay.