Amanda Jaffe, who appeared in the previous Margolin books— Proof Positive and Wild Justice—returns yet again in Fugitive. Amanda is a lawyer in Portland, Oregon. This time around, she is offered five hundred thousand dollars to defend Charlie Marsh, a bestselling spiritual guru.

Charlie Marsh is an ex con and petty thief who earned an early release from prison after saving a prison warden’s life during a riot. Upon his release, he wrote a book about how to achieve personal transformation, changed his name to Gabriel Sun and became an instant Guru.

Charlie also became an instant celebrity. Women loved him and soon Charlie found himself involved in an affair with the wife of a senator. When the senator is murdered, both Charlie and his lover are charged with the crime.

They’re both put on trial, but before the trial is over, Charlie flees the country and lands in a small African country where no extradition is allowed and a heartless dictator rules. When he is accused of bedding the dictator’s favorite wife he flees back to the United Stated in order to stand trial instead of taking a chance with the ruthless dictator.

As Amanda works with Dennis Levy, a reporter assigned to the case, she soon finds herself deep in an attempt to keep Charlie out of prison, to prevent him from becoming the target of the African dictator’s henchmen. Then she learns that someone else is trying to kill him—this time to keep a decade’s old secret from coming to light.

Margolin has penned yet another winner with this courtroom drama that crosses continents and years to reach the jaw dropping finish.