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Name: Fugitive
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Author: Phillip Margolin

In "Fugitive," Amanda Jaffe, the seasoned criminal lawyer from "Wild Justice," is drawn into a high‑stakes battle as Charlie Marsh—once a petty thief who became a national hero—must evade a federal murder charge and a tyrant’s secret police. After living in Batanga, a nation ruled by the ruthless Jean‑Claude Baptiste, Charlie flees home, but the dictator learns of his affair with the tyrant’s wife and sets the state of Oregon against him. Amanda must keep Charlie off death row, outwit the back‑stabbing force of Baptiste’s police, and stop a shadowy killer intent on burying a decade‑old crime forever.

First publish date: 2009

Genre: Thriller/Legal Thriller

Authors: Phillip Margolin

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