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Burning Man
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553574951
ISBN: 0553574957
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 370
Publication Date: June 02, 1997
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: June 02, 1997
Studio: Bantam
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Editorial Review:
From bestselling author Phillip Margolin, a fast-paced legal thriller packed with page-turning suspense.Peter Hale is a young attorney struggling to make his own mark in his father's venerable law firm when he is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. During the trial of a multimillion-dollar case, Peter's father, the lead counsel, suffers a heart attack and asks Peter to move for a mistrial until 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 chooses to
carry on with the case against his father's wishes. In his zeal to prove himself, Peter neglects his client and ends up losing everything—the case, his
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 good there, he can reinstate himself in his father's good graces. But his ambition again gets the best of him when he takes on a death-penalty case, representing 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 and surprises, Phillip Margolin has done it again. This is sure to be his biggest bestseller yet.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - I may be wrong but........
.....I think Mr. Margolin wrote this book as a joke. If not, I'm sorry, Mr. M.
Rating:  - Fantastic ! Great audiobook !!!!!!!!!!
This is one of the best audiobooks I have ever listened to. It had characters that kept my interest. The storyline was fast paced and never boring. The reader was superb. I highly recommend. I will listen to this more than once. This book is a keeper in my book.
Rating:  - A capitivating mystery
Young and arrogrant, Peter Hale was sent to a back-woods town for a lesson in humility after fumbling a major case for his father. Driven from his life of priviledge where nothing but the finest would do ~~ Peter takes on another case and this time, learns a lesson about human nature. He took on a case of a mentally-retarded man who is accused of killing a young college co-ed. This same man was also caught just a few weeks prior as a peeping tom at the local college. This man is also a brother-in ... Read More
Rating: - The burning man gets burned
Reading a book was usually challenging for me to do, I could never get myself motivated and ready to read a book such as The Burning Man. This book took a few pages for me to get into it, but after a while I found myself not being able to put it down.The book was a well-written murder mystery, with many different twists in it.
It starts out with Peter being a lawyer in a big time company, which is his dad's law firm. After an incident with his father, Peter thinks he can win the case for his ... Read More
Rating: - HOT STUFF
One has to admire Margolin's ability to take standard characters and situations and mold them into engrossing, suspenseful thrillers. "The Burning Man" is a good example. We meet a spoiled, egocentric, self-centered lawyer named Peter Hale who botches a case for his stricken father, who is so upset with him he fires him from his law firm, disinherits him and ships him off to the boonies of Oregon (guess every state has their own boonies)to work as a public defender. His new boss, Amos Geary, immediately ... Read More
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