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The Burning Man : A Novel by Phillip Margolin is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Burning Man : A Novel about?
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 tocarry 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, hisjob, 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 an
Who reads The Burning Man : A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Phillip Margolin
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780553574951
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (910 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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