The Burning Man

A clean softcover, no markings throughout, NOT an ex-library book: From bestselling author Phillip Margolin, a fast-paced legal thriller packe d with page-turning suspense. Peter Hale is a young attorney struggling to make his own mark in his fathe r's venerable law firm when he is presented with the opportunity of a lifet ime. During the trial of a multimillion-dollar case, Peter's father, the le ad counsel, suffers a heart attack and asks Peter to move for a mistrial un til he's feeling better. Peter decides this is his only chance to prove to his father that he is the terrific lawyer he knows himself to be, and he ch ooses to carry on with the case against his father's wishes. In his zeal to prove hi mself, Peter neglects his client and ends up losing everything-the case, hi s job, and his father. Unemployed and disinherited, Peter takes the only job he is offered-that of a public defender in a small Oregon town. He hopes that if he can make goo d there, he can reinstate himself in his father's good graces. But his ambi tion again gets the best of him when he takes on a death-penalty case, repr esenting a mentally retarded man accused of the brutal hatchet murder of a college coed. He's in way over his head, and it's only when Peter realizes that his greed and his ego may end up killing his client that he begins to understand what it really takes to be a good lawyer-and to become a man. The Chicago Tribune said "It takes a really crafty storyteller to put people on the edge of their seats and keep them there. But Phillip Margolin does just that." In The Burning Man, with its intricate plotting, legal intrigue, and many twists.

Product Info

ISBN: 0553574957

ISBN-13: 9780553574951

Publisher: Bantam

Year: 1997

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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