The Lincoln Lawyer
A Richard and Judy bestseller
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4.3 • 63 Ratings
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- £5.99
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Publisher Description
There is no client as scary as an innocent man...
Mickey is a Lincoln Lawyer - a criminal defence attorney operating out of the back of his car, a Lincoln - taking whatever cases the system throws at him. He's been a defence lawyer for a long time, and he knows just how to work the legal system. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Haller gets his first high-paying client in years. The evidence mounts on the defence's side, and Haller might even be in the rare position of defending a client who is actually innocent.
But then the case starts to fall apart. And neither the suspect nor the victim are quite who they seem, and Haller quickly discovers that when you swim with the sharks, you might just end up as prey...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Veteran bestseller Connelly enters the crowded legal thriller field with flash and panache. Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller regularly represents lowlifes, but he's no slickster trolling for loopholes in the ethics laws. He's haunted by how he mishandled the case of (probably innocent) Jesus Menendez, and, though twice divorced, he's on good terms with his ex-wives; one of them manages his office, and the other, an ambitious assistant DA, occasionally tumbles back into bed with him. When Mickey signs on to defend young real estate agent Louis Roulet against charges of assault, he can't help seeing dollar signs: Roulet's imperious mother will spend any amount to prove her beloved son's innocence. But probing the details of the case, Mickey and private investigator Raul Levin dig up a far darker picture of Roulet's personality and his past. Levin's murder and a new connection to the Menendez case make Mickey wonder if he's in over his head, and his defense of Roulet becomes a question of morality as well as a test of his own survival. After Connelly spends the book's first half involving the reader in Mickey's complex world, he thrusts his hero in the middle of two high-stakes duels, against the state and his own client, for heart-stopping twists and topflight storytelling.
Customer Reviews
As good as Grisham
As someone who has read most the John Grisham books I came across Michael Connelly by chance but his books are as good.
This book takes you back to the early days and you get a real feel of the characters and the plot really flows.
Really good and well worth a read.
Good read
Had me hooked from the beginning. I enjoy his description of court practice and explanation of what he is thinking and planning ( but keeps something back ). Be buying more.
Dreadful book!
I’ve read most of Baldacci’s books and usually find them riveting. This however, is a really poor effort on his part. His books are usually hard to put down after each chapter, but this holds no suspense and simply doesn’t flow. The characters are laughably inane and the dialogue almost childlike.
A thoroughly dreary, monotonous tome in my opinion.