The Lincoln Lawyer Novels by Michael Connelly
An omnibus of the legal thrillers featuring 'The Lincoln Lawyer', defence attorney Mickey Haller.
The Lincoln Lawyer
Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn't recognise innocence if it stood right in front of him. But what he should have been on the watch for was evil.
Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defence attorney who operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, travelling 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 defence 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.
The Brass Verdict
Defence lawyer Mickey Haller has had some problems, but he's put all that behind him and is ready to resume his career. Then a lawyer called Vincent dies, and Haller unexpectedly inherits all Vincent's clients, putting his stalled career back on track at a stroke.
Not only that, he inherits a high-profile and potentially lucrative murder case. It's a trial that promises big fees and an even bigger place in the media spotlight - and if Mickey can win against the odds he'll really be back in the big leagues.
There's one problem: the detective handling the case - a certain Harry Bosch - is convinced the killer is one of Vincent's clients. Suddenly Mickey is facing the biggest challenge of his life: how to successfully defend a client who might just be planning to murder him.
The Reversal
When Mickey Haller is invited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney to prosecute a case for him, he knows something strange is going on. Mickey's a defence lawyer, one of the best in the business, and to switch sides like this would be akin to asking a fox to guard the henhouse. But the high-profile case of Jason Jessup, a convicted child-killer who spent almost 25 years on death row before DNA evidence freed him, is an intriguing one.
Eager for the publicity and drawn to the challenge, Mickey takes the case, with Detective Harry Bosch on board as his lead investigator. But as a new trial date is set, it starts to look like he's been set up. Mickey and Harry are going to have to dig deep into the past and find the truth about what really happened to the victim all those years ago.
Format: Paperback | 858 pages
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 15.3 x 5.3 | 1.068kg
Publication Date: 01 Dec 2011
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publication City/Country: Crows Nest, SYD, Australia
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN13: 9781742379012
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including minor scuff marks along the edges, but no holes or tears. All pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages.