The Burning Man: A Novel

Once I started it I could not put this book down. Phillip Margolin wove a taut and exciting legal drama, full of very interesting and believable characters. He had false leads and kept you in doubt until the very unexpected end.

You will want to know how it ends! The intertwining stories are good. But, this is the kind of book you can put down and come back to later.

Love this book. A real page turner all the way thru. Another great book by Philip Margolin. I love his books....I have finally read every one of them.

An unexpectedly well told story. It was hard to stop reading to go to sleep.

The book required reading a few chapters before it got interesting - I enjoyed how the son had accepted the punishment from his father in a big law firm that his father ran and in the end when he needed advice and help he found that his father would be there for him - the son had learned a valuable lesson in humility. In writing this I am having to remember just how it all happened as it has been a few months since I read the book. It was a good book and I think anyone would enjoy it.

As usual Margolin’s books hold you to the end with all the twists, turns, and plots. Burning Man is a great book and hard tin. Put down.

It was okay---missing that element that you don't want to put the book down.

The twists and turns in the plot keeps the reader guessing throughout the story. It was very interesting and kept the readers interest highly engaged.

Loved this book

Ce livre appartient au genre popularisé par Grisham et Turow, avec une enquête et des scènes de tribunal (ce que j'ai préféré). Malgré quelques longueurs, le récit est bien mené et le suspense très prenant notamment dans la dernière partie. Les personnages quoique un peu stéréotypés sont intéressants .

I love courtroom suspense. And when it comes to courtroom suspense, Mr. Margolin is by far the best. The main character is Peter Hale, a young attorney working at his father’s multimillion-dollar corporate law firm. Within minutes into the story, the novice attorney Peter, against the warning of his father, decides to handle a case on his own and ends up ruining his client’s chance of ever receiving any real money. The case was ruined. Now without the largess of his father’s wealth, power, and influence, Peter is forced to live a life of penury (well, maybe not penury), and work as a public defender in a very small town of Oregon. It is here in this small town that Peter is asked to defend a close friends brother-in-law in a murder trial. The once spoiled Peter is once again in the spot light but this time he has no choice but to improve himself for the better as a person and as an attorney if he wants to successfully defend his new client. The plot is solid, the excitement is there, and the usual courtroom battle can be seen everywhere. This may just be Margolin’s best novel yet.