by Michael Connelly (Author)
They're called Lincoln Lawyers: the bottom of the legal food chain, the criminal defence attorneys who operate out of the back of a Lincoln car, travelling between the courthouses of Los Angeles county to take whatever cases the system throws in their path. Mickey Haller has been in the business a long time, and he knows just how to work it, how to grease the right wheels and palms, to keep the engine of justice working in his favour. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Haller has his first high-paying client in years. The evidence mounts on the defence's side, and he is sure this is going to be a slam-dunk. He might even be in the rare position of defending a client who is actually innocent. But as Haller knows, criminal cases can turn on a dime; when his case starts to fall apart and neither the suspect nor the victim are quite who they seem, Haller quickly discovers that when you swim with the sharks, it's easy to wind up as prey.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Edition: 1st UK edition
Publisher: Orion
Published: 17 Oct 2005
ISBN 10: 0752865838
ISBN 13: 9780752865836
Book Overview: Movie rights have been sold to Lakeshore Entertainment (producers of Oscar winning 'Million Dollar Baby') for a seven-figure sum Connelly is a No.1 bestselling author in the UK in hardback and mass market paperback He is also No.1 in Ireland, Australia, France and Italy His first novel THE BLACK ECHO won the Edgar Award; BLOOD WORK was nominated for an Edgar; ANGELS FLIGHT and CITY OF BONES for the Gold Dagger With THE NARROWS Connelly's trade sales leapt by 45 per cent to 173,000 copies Connelly gets consistently brilliant reviews and is seen as one of the leading, if not the leading, American crime writer of his generation
Prizes: Shortlisted for CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2006.