Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Under Fire: A Novel
    Unavailable
    Under Fire: A Novel
    Unavailable
    Under Fire: A Novel
    Ebook493 pages6 hours

    Under Fire: A Novel

    By Margaret McLean

    3.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    A Boston firefighter is shot and killed in the line of duty while rescuing Amina Diallo and her fifteen-year-old son, Malick, from their burning store. Diallo, a Senegalese Muslim immigrant, is arrested for arson and murder, and will likely be convicted in record time.

    Attorneys Sarah Lynch and Buddy Clancy face more than racial and religious prejudice in this impossible courtroom battle. Diallo is targeted by a gunman in open court, a key defense witness is attacked, and documents are stolen. Someone is trying to stop Sarah and Clancy from winning the case. They must find out who and why. A dangerous pursuit of the truth becomes Amina's only chance in Margaret McLean's Under Fire.


    At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJun 21, 2011
    ISBN9781429971898
    Unavailable
    Under Fire: A Novel
    Author

    Margaret McLean

    Margaret McLean was born and raised in Rome, New York. She graduated magna cum laude from Boston College and earned her law degree from Boston College Law School. McLean practiced law as a criminal prosecutor and is now a legal analyst on numerous national television and radio shows. She has cowritten a dramatic courtroom play based on her second novel, Under Oath, and she also has a nationally syndicated weekly radio show called It's a Crime Radio. In 2010, she was hailed as one of the next faces of Boston crime fiction by The Boston Globe. She lives in Norwell, Massachusetts, with her three children.

    Related to Under Fire

    Related ebooks

    Thrillers For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Playing God

      Apr 10, 2023

      After Jack was abducted by the alien spaceship, and after the round vessel had vanished into the Milky Way, he found himself walking down a tubular corridor with white vibrating walls, escorted by a sinuous blonde who smiled graciously and said her n

      13 min read

    • Article

      Zooming Out

      Oct 24, 2021

      Zooming Out
      2 min read

    • Article

      Getting Up

      Oct 15, 2022

      Getting Up
      20 min read

    • Article

      The Turn

      Aug 14, 2019

      HERE’S a story. In college I entered the spring semester of my freshman year on academic probation. There wasn’t one reason this happened. There were many. I had signed up for a computer science class called Digital Security with no programming knowl

      5 min read

    • Article

      GhoST StoRies

      Apr 12, 2021

      GhoST StoRies
      8 min read

    • Article

      Chost Stories

      Apr 12, 2021

      Chost Stories
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Perfect Daughter

      Jul 10, 2021

      Standing in a handstand, Jane arched her back and lowered her feet towards the head. Scorpion pose. She saw herself in the mirror, balancing in this challenging position. It was close to perfection… And she felt sick at the sight of it. From the loud

      8 min read

    • Article

      Identity Crisis

      Nov 15, 2021

      Identity Crisis
      6 min read

    • Article

      The House Of Evil

      Jun 4, 2020

      The House Of Evil
      2 min read

    • Article

      Where Night Stops

      Jan 15, 2018

      Where Night Stops
      6 min read

    • Article

      What firefighters know

      Oct 12, 2019

      What firefighters know
      12 min read

    • Article

      The Room Above

      Sep 10, 2021

      For a moment, he had no thoughts. Just…observations… A blue hole. No – a window… Crystalline sky swelling through a big square gap in the otherwise plain white wall. He blinked. Was that sky out there? What was in here? Where was ‘here’? He blinked s

      29 min read

    • Article

      Lindsay Hunter Is Redrawing the Boundaries of Crime Fiction

      Jan 18, 2024

      "I believe in breaks, in fallow periods, in getting one’s bearings. But reading is my constant. I feel bereft in those brief moments between books." The post Lindsay Hunter Is Redrawing the Boundaries of Crime Fiction appeared first on The Millions.

      7 min read

    • Article

      KILL A STRANGER Chapter 2

      Dec 31, 2020

      If you’ve never been in a situation like this before, you just can’t understand it. I’ll be blunt. It was absolutely terrifying. The nightmare started just like that. Bang. I literally woke with a start, and realised that I was being flung around in

      5 min read

    • Article

      No-good Samaritans

      Jul 6, 2023

      An icy blast hit my face as I crouched in a dark doorway, pulling the three damp coats I had on tighter around me. ‘Any spare change, please?' I whimpered as people went into the 24-hour convenience shop behind me. It was November 2018, and I was hom

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Ladies Book Club

      Apr 10, 2024

      “Our brains are shaped with the capability to care deeply but also to kill. This deep ambivalence is potentially problematic. A society filled with people who are inherently very compassionate and very violent might prove unstable.”1 1Emile Bruneau,

      25 min read

    • Article

      Pleasure Palace

      Sep 1, 2022

      Pleasure Palace
      15 min read

    • Article

      Tattoo Me

      Dec 5, 2021

      Tattoo Me
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Scars We Bear

      Oct 10, 2023

      The sentencing hearing started, and my mother put her arm around me. The prosecutor, a tall, distinguished-looking woman, described the crime. John Callum punched Joellen Baxter in the face, knocking her to the floor. He dragged her to the electric s

      18 min read

    • Article

      Crossed Wires

      Feb 23, 2024

      Crossed Wires
      5 min read

    • Article

      Quantum Radio

      Feb 22, 2023

      Quantum Radio
      5 min read

    • Article

      A Good Samaritan

      Dec 6, 2022

      It was hot that day, hot for the morning and hot for April and with a stickiness in the air that suggested something had to break. I was headed up the street to ask my neighbor Meech to give me a jump when I heard a scream come from the fourplex next

      10 min read

    • Article

      Behind The Scenes

      Oct 18, 2021

      Behind The Scenes
      8 min read

    Reviews for Under Fire

    3.5/5

    12 ratings2 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 3/5
      Margaret McLean’ ‘Under Fire’ is a courtroom drama set in the aftermath of a fatal fire. A Boston firefighter is shot while rescuing a Sengalese Muslim immigrant and her teen son from the fire burning their small grocery. Amina Diallo and her son Malick are rescued, but Amina is charged with both setting the fire and shooting the fireman.Amina’s only hope rests with her attorney, Buddy Clancy, who entices his niece, Sarah, into acting as his assistant. Together the two (who are obviously set for further adventures - and books) must solve the crime themselves in order to save Amina.The issue in all thrillers is whether or not tension and suspense are built and maintained throughout the novel. It was not a compelling read for me; I found it all too easy to walk away and actually difficult to return to the novel. Rather than ‘thrilling’ the novel is a bit predictable. But both Sarah and Buddy are interesting creations that deserve another outing. However, they deserve a better, perhaps more original, plot.Three Stars. The bottom line: While a promising debut, ‘Under Fire’ is more lackluster than thrilling.
    • 3/5
      I had high hopes for this book,which I received from Amazon Vine.It promised a thriller, and at first looked like it was headed in that direction. There was a fire in a store owned by Amina Diallo.Amina is an African woman who wears clothing by which she is often identified as an "Arab" or Muslim. This book does an excellent job of pointing out just how oftenour society points fingers and shows intolerance of those who are not instantly identifiable ( supposedly) at a glance as American. This has been much worse since the occurrences of 9/11/2001. Her attorney is the quirky and highly enjoyable Buddy Clancey.You can tell what his feelings are by the design on his bow ties. ( watch out for "mice")Buddy's niece is on the legal team as well. She is a strong, yet vulnerable woman who played Hockey on the American Olympic team, and has considered leaving the legal field, after an event that is connected with her former partner. Buddy is by far my favorite character. He is smart, endearing andas I said quirky. HE takes his dog, and snacks with him everywheremuch to the consternation of others who work with him. When you read this, you will find that you spend much of the timein a courtroom. The case ebbs and flows, now seemingly in favor of the defense, other times in favor of the prosecution. The defendant's main focus is the safety and well being of her teenaged son, who has been left without family since her arrest. In my rating system 3 stars equal a good solid read, but nothing special. I found this to be interesting enough to hold my attention, partly due to my fondness for Buddy. I felt it moved rather slowly in places. Whileit is a worthy enough read, it holds nothing special in its pages, in my opinion. , Buddy Clancy, a brilliant legal performer. Amina Diallo is the defendant, an African woman who wears Muslim garb