The Lincoln Lawyer

Mickey Haller is a criminal defense attorney. His office is the back seat of a “Lincoln,” in which he travels between courts in Los Angeles; his clients are hustlers, fighters, drunk drivers, and that sort of crowd. For Haller, a cynic, it usually doesn’t matter whether his client is guilty or not. Isn’t justice the same kind of transaction?
But finally, in all this murky water, Mickey catches a big fish: a Beverly Hills playboy arrested for assaulting a woman he picked up in a bar. As the evidence piles up, Haller concludes that this is probably the easiest case of his career. And he’s brutally wrong.
Now he’ll have to show extraordinary ingenuity to save his own life. The novel opens a popular series about the talented attorney Mickey Haller, who takes on the most hopeless cases. Let someone call him unscrupulous—his credo is: “Never allow an innocent person to be convicted.”