Abrams' latest book "John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial," published on March 3, 2020, was a New York Times top ten bestseller. In 1770, British soldiers shot and killed five civilians. As John Adams would later remember, "On that night the formation of American independence was born". Yet when the British soldiers faced trial, the young lawyer Adams was determined that they receive a fair one. He volunteered to represent them, keeping the peace in a powder keg of a colony, and in the process created some of the foundations of what would become United States law.