It is a defense attorney’s dream, what they call a franchise case. Sometimes it’s even about justice.Ī Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence - it’s about negotiation and manipulation. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers - they’re all on Mickey Haller’s client list. He travels between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind.

Haller is the Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car. But what he should have been on the watch for was evil. This #1 bestselling legal thriller from Michael Connelly is a stunning display of novelistic mastery - as human, as gripping, and as whiplash-surprising as any novel yet from the writer Publishers Weekly has called 'today's Dostoevsky of crime literature.Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn’t recognize innocence if it stood right in front of him. To escape without being burned, he must deploy every tactic, feint, and instinct in his arsenal - this time to save his own life. Then someone close to him is murdered and Haller discovers that his search for innocence has brought him face-to-face with evil as pure as a flame. And as the evidence stacks up, Haller comes to believe this may be the easiest case of his career. It is a defense attorney's dream, what they call a franchise case. A Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence, it's about negotiation and manipulation. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers - they're all on Mickey Haller's client list. Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. In this fast-paced legal thriller, charismatic defense attorney Mickey Haller takes on a slam-dunk court case involving a Beverly Hills playboy - but as it spirals into a nightmare, he finds himself in a fight for his life.

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