The Lincoln Lawyer
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This #1 bestselling officially authorized thriller from Michael Connelly is a stunning spectacle of novelistic mastery – as human, as gripping, and as whiplash-surprising as any novel yet from the writer Publishers Weekly has called “today’s Dostoevsky of crime literature.”
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 selected 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 judge this may be the simplest case of his career. Then a name 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 lacking being burned, he must deploy every tactic, feint, and instinct in his arsenal – this time to save his own life.
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Best-selling leader Michael Connelly, whose character-driven literary mysteries have earned him a wide following, breaks from the gate in the over-crowded meadow of officially authorized thrillers and leaves every additional contender from Grisham to Turow in the dust with this tightly plotted, brilliantly paced, impossible-to-place-down novel.
Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller’s father was a legendary lawyer whose clients included gangster Mickey Cohen (in a nice twist, Cohen’s gun, agreed to Dad then bequeathed to his son, plays a key role in the plot). But Dad also passed on an vital piece of advice that’s especially significant when Mickey takes the case of a wealthy Los Angeles realtor accused of attempted murder: “The scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you [screw] up and he goes to prison, it’ll scar you for life.”
Louis Roulet, Mickey’s “franchise client” (so-called becaue he’s able and willing to pay whatever his defense costs) seems to be the one his father warned him against, as well as being a few rungs privileged on the socio-economic ladder than the drug dealers, homeboys, and motorcycle thugs who comprise Mickey’s regular case load. But as the holes in Roulet’s tale tear Mickey’s theory of the case to shreds, his thoughts turn more to Jesus Menendez, a ex- client convicted of a similar crime who’s now languishing in San Quentin. Connelly tellingly delineates the code of officially authorized ethics Mickey lives by: “It didn’t matter…whether the defendant ‘did it’ or not. What mattered was the evidence against him–the proof–and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt.” But by the time his client goes to examination, Mickey’s feeling a few very reasonable doubts of his own.
While Mickey’s courtroom pyrotechnics dazzle, his behind-the-scenes machinations and manipulations are even more incendiary in this taut, gripping novel, which showcases all of Connelly’s literary gifts. There’s not an excess sentence or padded paragraph in it–what there is, happily, is a character who, like Harry Bosch, deserves a franchise series of his own. –Jane Adams
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I am currently going through three (3) different books; all three (3) of which I have borrowed from the Library; & which I received prior to ordering Lincoln Lawyer; & just late yesterday afternoon, renewed them all. I can only say in the past I have loved ALL officially authorized books/thrillers, regardless of the Leader, unless the book contains smut. If an Leader has a excellent plot, he does not need to add smut. Do hope you will be able to receive suitable reviews from others. Hopefully, another time I can be of help. M.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
THE AUTHER IS VERY GOOD IN HIS OTHER BOOKS BUT THIS ONE WAS A WASTE OF MONEY AFTER 2 CHAPTERS IT WAS TRASH
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I thought that I bought a hardcover edition of this book but as a replacement for received a paperback. Maybe I missed it but it should be made perfectly clear what you are odering. As a result I did not read the book and gave it away.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
LIKE THE CHARACTER AND THE INSIGHT INTO THE CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEYS WORLD BUT GIVE ME BOSCH!
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
SPOILER WARNING. On page 79, a character uses the word “faggots.” This “homophobic” comment gives away the ending of the novel, in the tiresome style of the cop shows on television.
In nearly every episode of a TV cop show, the ending is agreed away by a propagandistic clue that is as devious as a nightstick. The clue takes either of two standard forms:
(1) A character is “politically incorrect.” For example, he’s a “racist,” a “sexist,” a “homophobe,” a rich white businessman, a cigarette smoker, a gun owner, or a user of right English grammar. Guilty.
(2) A character questioned to “cooperate” with the police fails to become straight away servile. For example, an office manager abruptly questioned to hand over the personnel files of all employees in the company responds politely, “Let me just check first with our company lawyer.” Guilty.
We expect such gutless awkwardness from television writers; we don’t expect it from novelists.
I have read every Michael Connelly novel published so far; I don’t plot to read any more. If Mr. Connelly is willing to give away his own ending in order to make a silly ideological gesture, then I infer that he no longer cares to aim his books at intelligent readers.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5