Joel Burcat
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Joel Burcat

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Joel Burcat is an author and environmental lawyer. REAP THE WIND (Sunbury Press, Inc.) will be released in February 2024. It is an action/adventure thriller about three lawyers fleeing from Houston to Cincinnati in a Lincoln Town Car though a climate change-induced hurricane. DRINK TO EVERY BEAST (2019) was his debut novel. It is an environmental legal thriller about illegal dumping of toxic waste. AMID RAGE (2021) was his second novel. It is an thriller about coal strip mining. His third book was STRANGE FIRE (2022), and is about fracking in north-central Pa. He has won awards from PennWriters, Next Gen. Indie Book Awards, New York Festival of Books, Readers' Favorite, ScreenCraft, and others. STRANGE FIRE won the Gold Medal for environmental fiction from Readers' Favorite books and was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Week. He has written dozens of short stories (from the best beer he ever had, to horror, to murder for hire) and six have been published. John Lescroart (THE 13TH JUROR) has called his writing "complex and intelligent, deftly plotted and character rich." William Landay (DEFENDING JACOB) has said of STRANGE FIRE, "It is a dark suspenseful read...handled with gritty style. A treat for thriller fans." "I want my readers to feel they are with my characters in the courtroom, a canoe on a polluted river, a strip mine, or in a hurricane. I write so my readers see, feel, and smell what my characters are seeing, feeling, and smelling. If my characters are scared, my readers will be scared too. That is the ultimate goal of a writer." He was selected as the 2019 Lawyer of the Year in Environmental Litigation (for Central PA) by Best Lawyers in America. He has been designated by both “Super Lawyers” and “Best Lawyers” for environmental and oil and gas law. In addition to his law practice, he edited two non-fiction books on environmental and energy law and has written numerous professional articles on environmental law. Burcat lives in Harrisburg, Pa. with his wife, Gail.
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    • Amid Rage

    • Written by: Joel Burcat
    • Narrated by: Burke Allen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2021-03-29
    • Language: English
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