Mickey Haller is a criminal defense lawyer. His office is the back seat of a Lincoln, where he travels between courts in Los Angeles; his clients are cardsharps, fighters, drunk drivers, and people like them. For the cynic Haller, it generally doesn’t matter whether his client is guilty or not. After all, isn’t justice the same kind of trade?
But in the end, in this muddied water, Mickey finds the big catch: a playboy from Beverly Hills who has been arrested for attacking a woman he met at a bar. As the evidence accumulates, Haller comes to the conclusion that this is probably the easiest case in his career. And he’s cruelly wrong. Now he’ll have to show no small ingenuity to save his own life.
The novel opens a popular series about the talented defense attorney Mickey Haller, who takes on the most hopeless cases. Let someone call him unscrupulous, but his credo is this: “Don’t allow an innocent person to be convicted.”