The Lincoln Lawyer - Paperback

The Lincoln Lawyer is the first Mickey Haller novel, the defense attorney who works out of the back seat of a Lincoln across Los Angeles.

His clients are bikers, con men and dealers, and he treats the law as a negotiation more than a question of guilt. Then a rich Beverly Hills client hands him an easy franchise case, someone close to Haller is killed, and the case turns on him.

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The Netflix series of the same name started here. People who met Haller on screen first say the novel holds its own, with twists they did not see coming and a pace that makes it hard to set down.

From the publisher

This bestselling legal thriller follows the charismatic defense attorney, Mickey Haller, as he takes on a slam-dunk court case involving a Beverly Hills playboy--but as it spirals into a nightmare, he finds himself in a fight for his life.

Inspiration for the #1 Netflix series The Lincoln Lawyer.

Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers--they're all on Mickey Haller's client list.

For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence, it's about negotiation and manipulation. Sometimes it's even about justice.

A Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. It is a defense attorney's dream, what they call a franchise case.

And as the evidence stacks up, Haller comes to believe this may be the easiest case of his career. Then someone close to him is murdered and Haller discovers that his search for innocence has brought him face-to-face with evil as pure as a flame. To escape without being burned, he must deploy every tactic, feint, and instinct in his arsenal--this time to save his own life.

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