num_pages: 405
description: Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldnt recognize innocence if it stood right in front of him. But what he should have been on the watch for was evil.Haller is the Lincoln Lawyer a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car. He travels between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers con artists drunk drivers drug dealers  theyre all on Mickey Hallers client list. For him the law is rarely about guilt or innocence  its about negotiation and manipulation. Sometimes its 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 attorneys 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.
language: English
title: The Lincoln Lawyer
publisher: Little, Brown and Company