At last things are going well for defense attorney Mikki Haller! After two years of fatal bad luck, he returns to court to defend a movie mogul accused of murdering his wife and her lover. No good comes without some bad—however cynical it may sound—because Haller received a big, promising case as a “inheritance” from the murdered colleague: Hollywood attorney Jerry Vincent. The circumstances of Vincent’s death are investigated by an experienced detective, Harry Bosch, who warns Haller at their first meeting about the danger: Haller too will be forced to stay silent forever, and it’s only a matter of time. And since events unfold fast, these two lone wolves realize there’s only one way out: work together…