The Burning Man

Zusatztext Praise for The Burning Man and Phillip Margolin: "Margolin specializes in characters who make your skin crawl."— People "Margolin's perfectly crafted plot provides plenty of chills"— Chicago Tribune "[Margolin] weaves disparate subplots and surprise twists into a terrific whodunit."— San Francisco Chronicle "Intricate plotting and warp-speed suspense. The man knows how to write a legal thriller."— Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Phillip Margolin was a practicing criminal defense attorney for twenty-five years, has tried many highprofile cases and has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. His previous novels are Heartstone, The Last Innocent Man, Gone, but Not Forgotten, After Dark, and The Burning Man . He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and two children. Klappentext 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 senior partners in Hale, Greaves, Strobridge, Marquand and Bartlett looked out from corner offices on the fortieth floor of the Continental Trust Building at the rivers, towering mountain and lush green hills that made Portland, Oregon, so unique. Though the skyscraper was new, the firm's quarters were decorated with heavy, dark woods, polished brass fittings and fine old antiques, giving the place an air of timeless quality. At precisely 7:30 A.M., Peter entered a small, windowless conference room where he and his father met before court every morning to review the witnesses who would testify that day and to discuss any legal issues that might arise. Peter's father still had the same massive build that helped him win second team All-American honors in football and an NCAA wrestling championship at Oregon State in 1956.  He owned a full head of white hair and his craggy face was outfitted with a broken nose and a cauliflower ear.  Richard Hale practiced law the way he played sports, full steam ahead and take no prisoners.  This morning, Peter's father was striding back and forth in front of a low credenza in his shirtsleeves, a phone receiver plastered to his ear, muttering "Jesus Christ!" at increasing decibel levels each time he made a turn. Peter took off his suit jacket and hung it behind the door on a hanger.  He noted with distaste that his father had flung his jacket onto a corner of the long conference table where it lay crumpled in a heap.  Richard loved playing the humble, hulking man of the people in front of juries and he thought that the disheveled clothes helped his image.  Peter could not imagine wearing a suit that had not b...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Phillip Margolin, Phillip M. Margolin
• Verlag: Bantam Books USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 02.06.1997
• EAN: 9780553574951
• ISBN: 978-0-553-57495-1
• Seiten: 384
• Abmessung: 106 mm x 175 mm x 26 mm
• Thema: Belletristik > Spannung > Krimis, Thriller, Spionage