The Burning Man - Hardcover

Margolin, Phillip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385480539 ISBN 13: 9780385480536

Publisher: Doubleday, 1996

Synopsis

The author of Gone, But Not Forgotten delivers a fast-paced legal thriller featuring an arrogant attorney who attempts to improve his character by becoming the public defender of a retarded man on trial for murder. 200,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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From the Publisher:

Chad Wheeler, an arrogant, self-centered associate in a large Portland, Oregon law firm, disobeys the orders of his father--a senior partner in the same firm--and commits a terrible blunder in a multi-million dollar law suit. Fired from his big city job, and disinherited from his father's will, he is sent in disgrace to work as a public defender in a small Oregon town, where he represents a retarded man who is facing the death penalty for the brutal murder of a college co-ed.

With the same fast-paced plotting that drove his last two novels onto the bestseller lists, and full of twists and surprises, this is a complex legal thriller that is sure to be Margolin's biggest bestseller yet.

From the Inside Flap:

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 bestselleryet.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0385480539
• ISBN 13: 9780385480536
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344