Fugitive audiobook

This is a great yarn. A scary, irrational dictator. A daring escape. A writer/hack who has no idea what he's getting into. Great character portrayal. This sets the right bar for the novel I'm working on. Fugitive is Margolin's best novel.

I really enjoyed the characters in this installment of the Amanda Jaffa series. While you wanted some of them to be innocent, both of murder and other transgressions, you soon learned they had some very negative character traits, along with their positive ones. That made them much more realistic and the story that much more compelling.

Phillip Margolin a Portland, Oregon Author another GREAT READ... Love his writing :-)

Read in 2009. A twisting tale of international intrigue and murder. One of my favorites that year.

Amanda jaffe takes after her father Frank when she representes the other suspect who fled to Africa. Only after he's threathen with his life does he return to face the music. Moonbeam to the rescue.

Exceptionally well thought out and superbly paced thriller.Charlie Marsh, a career scammer and one time criminal is dashing, charming, clever and born again after a heroic attempt to save a fellow con's life. Released, Charlie turns author and motivational speaker and continues on his scamming ways, amassing riches, gals, etc. Meets up with a congressman's wife, Sally Pope, for a dalliance that ends badly with her husband dead and Charlie the main suspect. He flees to Batanga, a tax free haven, an African country run by a cannibal so they say. Turns out, yes. After 12 years Charlie returns to face trial, an option better than Batanga. But there are a handful of people wanting Charlie dead and all take a shot at him. To no avail until a very surprising ending.Courtroom scenes abound with the crafty lawyer Amanda Jaffe; her dad Frank was Sally's lawyer the first go around. Margolin peoples this thriller with a fine cast of characters, criminals and the like. The pacing couldn't be tighter, the dialogue better or the Seattle and environs setting more appealing.Amanda Jaffe is a force to be reckoned with. There's a 6th book, Violent Crimes, in this series. I'll be reading it soon.

"Fugitive" is my first Phillip Margolin novel, so I can't argue with the Goodreads reviews that state that this is not his best work. I have feeling that I might learn that after reading more of his novels. After all, I enjoyed reading this book so much, I can guarantee more Margolin novels in my future.I appreciated how well written and easy reading this novel was. I hate books that I have to struggle through. Stephen King's Shining and Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (and Blood And Gold also) are shining examples (pun intended) of great stories written poorly. In my opinion, an average story that reads fast and easily is better than a great story that readers struggle with the writing style. (Note that King and Rice wrote many fast reading, well written novels; I am a fan of both of these authors).There are small things like too many characters and a contrived ending that forced me to mark the "Fugitive" down to 4 stars. I plan to read more Phillip Margolin novels. I have "Proof Positive" in my "to Read" stack. I learned from the internet that "Executive Privilege" is considered to be this best work.

Charlie Marsh has it all going for him. Then a murder happens in front of him and he's accused of it. So his bodyguard races him away to an airport where he can fly to an African country from which he cannot be extradited. He realizes that he's just jumped out of the frying pan into the fire. Meanwhile, Sally Pope, the wife of the man killed as well as the lady that was accused of setting up the kill, is freed and moves to Europe to protect her son. Well, Charles realizes that he has to get out to the country so he escapes back to America and plans to face the music. Of course, everyone seems to want to kill him off to protect themselves. Amanda Jaffe, the daughter of the man who defended Sally, is the defense lawyer for Charlie.

Amanda Jaffe series just gets better and betterThis Amanda Jaffe installment has an assortment of candidates to choose as to "who done it". It is pretty obvious that the Guru himself is innocent. Plenty of bad guys to go around. We see some personal aspects to dad Frank here which are touching. I wish I'd have kept a who's who on hand because there are so many characters to choose from. I noticed a character that sort of disappeared. I kept asking myself where did this person go? Guess that person wasn't important. Bam, then we get that character at the end all neatly tied with a bow. I am seriously enjoying this series.

was a good book but the murder they did not have much evedance of so they let it go and march just want the past to be past no regrets we do know kind who did it . nobody after him the brother went to till tempsa the black guy who got hire presnet of africa for dimands so nobody after march anymore and got his book written with joe reporter who we think might did the mudere but like sauid amada dose not care her client sent free and all just go ahead with there lives.

Overall the Fugitive was a good read. My biggest issue with the storyline is that there was so much back story that Amanda wasn’t in the beginning of the book. There were also a lot of “extra” characters and they became confusing. However, due to the twists and turns through the book I didn’t have my “a-ha” moment until the last chapter of the book. It definitely had me questioning until the last chapter of the book. Thanks for another fun book in the Amanda series - now onto the next!!

Great book really enjoyed it.

Interesting story about a twelve-year old crime and how it affected lives of many people. I like this series and look forward to reading more of it.

Not my favorite one but it was still good none the less!

Really easy read. There were many twists and turns up until the Epilogue. I would definitely recommend this book.

Love his books. What an ending!