personal aspects and interviewing psychopaths, au- thored by the book’s editors. The practical implica- tions of the interpersonal behavior, deception and manipulation, and violence threat of psychopathic individuals is reviewed. The authors provide 11 prac- tical tips for interviewing psychopathic individuals that highlight the need to understand the construct of psychopathy so that one can conduct efficient, effective, and safe interviews with these types of pa- tients or examinees. Although some of their practical tips may seem basic, the editors raise awareness of the need to be reflective and mindful of the particular challenges that should be explicitly considered when interviewing psychopathic individuals. On balance, the editors achieve their goal of pro- ducing a practical, useful book on psychopathy. For a busy clinician who plans to read chapters of interest selectively, this book provides an accessible means of obtaining knowledge of key points and ideas on the different aspects of psychopathy. It is not a reference for psychopathy but instead is a source for quick review of topics, some of which are likely to apply directly to current clinical practice. Reference 1. Babiak P, Hare RD: Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths go to Work. New York: HarperBusiness, 2007 Todd Tomita, MD Broadway Forensic Group Vancouver, BC, Canada Disclosures of financial or other potential conflicts of interest: None. “Let Justice Be Done Though the Heavens May Fall”: The Zong in Amma Asante’s Belle Written by Misan Sagay. Directed by Amma Asante. Produced by Damien Jones. A DJ Films, Isle of Man Film, Pinewood Pictures, BFI Production. Released in the United States, May 2, 2014. 104 minutes. A legal case in which more than 132 slaves were in- tentionally thrown from a British slaving vessel into the ocean to die may seem an unlikely backdrop for a period romance, but Belle attempts just that. The critically acclaimed film takes its name from Dido Elizabeth Belle, a woman born of the union between a black woman and a white man in 1763. Belle’s likeness, next to that of her white half-cousin, was famously captured in a portrait that demonstrates a degree of equality unheard of at the time. The paint- ing has sparked interest in the form of articles, a biography, and now a movie about Belle’s life. Director Amma Asante begins the film with Belle as a young girl meeting her father, Sir John Lindsay, for the first time. He picks her up from a slum in his horse-drawn carriage, amid stares in the street, to take her to the life he says she was “born to.” He goes off to sea in the Royal Navy and leaves her in the care of his uncle, William Murray, Earl of Mansfield, who was the Lord Chief Justice of England. Also in Lord Mansfield’s care is Belle’s half-cousin, Elizabeth Murray. The film shows a close relationship between the girls as they grow into young women who must find husbands if they are to secure futures for them- selves. They are introduced into society at a critical time, during the appeal in the Zong case. Belle first learns of the case of the Zong massacre from a local clergyman’s son, John Davinier, who has come to study law in an apprenticeship with her un- cle. The Zong was a slave ship that set sail from Africa in 1781 with 442 slaves on board. 1 Over the course of the voyage, many of the slaves became sick and died. The ship owners alleged that the vessel was running dangerously low on water, requiring the crew to jettison 132 slaves into the sea, to save the ship and its crew. Upon the ship’s return to England, the company that owned the ship sued the insurance company for the value of the drowned slaves. The case, which came before Lord Mansfield, Belle’s un- cle, hinged on the necessity of jettisoning the human “cargo,” since natural deaths occurring at sea (such as those from illness) would not be covered by the com- pany’s insurance. In the film, Davinier voices his belief that the crew was not in need of water, but had coldly calculated that the slaves were worth more dead than as ruined merchandise. (One must set aside any imagining of a murder trial, as such a trial never occurred; rather the trial was about insurance fraud and “necessity.”) The case of the Zong is a central element in the movie, driving the actions of the main characters. The Lord Chief Justice has weighty responsibilities in the Commonwealth and is described in the movie as “next to the King, the most important man in England.” The case is portrayed as being paramount to the financial future of Britain, because of the Books and Media 530 The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law