Once, Mickey Haller’s office was a car salon, and his clients were street gangsters and troublemakers, bikers, and small-time drug dealers. Now he’s an experienced and lucky attorney, but sometimes the past makes itself known.
A well-known “night butterfly” of Los Angeles is killed—a former client and an old friend of Mickey. And the main suspect turns out to be her pimp, Andre Lacos. He insists he’s innocent, and Haller has every reason to believe him. But who is the real killer? To save his client, Mickey begins his own investigation—and very soon concludes that the truth is needed by no one but him. What’s more, there are people willing to bury this truth along with the attorney himself…