Michael "Mickey" Haller is what's known as a "Lincoln Lawyer," a criminal defense attorney whose only office is the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car. Mickey has been a lawyer for a long time and has seen his share of defendants, but he's not sure he's ever seen an innocent one.
When a client comes along promising to be a "franchise" (a case with the opportunity for appeals, raking it in each court date), Mickey takes it with dollar signs in his eyes. After all, he's got two ex-wives, a daughter and the Town Car to support.
However, as the case progresses, Mickey begins to wonder whether he's finally run into a truly innocent client, which is the worst kind. If you fail him, it follows you the rest of your life. But when Mickey's lead investigator is killed after getting too close to the truth, Mickey has to wonder if it's true innocence or pure evil he's run into.
A nail-biter through and through, THE LINCOLN LAWYER will keep you guessing to the climactic end. A really great read!
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.
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. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers -- they're all on Mickey Haller's client list. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence, it's about negotiation and manipulation. Sometimes it's even about justice.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. It is a defense attorney's dream, what they call a franchise case. And as the evidence stacks up, Haller comes to believe this may be the easiest case of his career. 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. To escape without being burned, he must deploy every tactic, feint, and instinct in his arsenal -- this time to save his own life.
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."
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