Sumérjase en el apasionante mundo del derecho de Los Ángeles con un brillante y moralmente flexible abogado defensor que opera desde su Lincoln Navigator. Cada caso lo adentra más en las intrincadas redes del crimen y la justicia, donde la línea entre el bien y el mal se difumina peligrosamente. El modus operandi único del protagonista y su búsqueda incesante de la verdad prometen una lectura de alta adrenalina llena de giros inesperados. Es una visión cautivadora de la vida de un hombre que lucha por sus clientes, sean culpables o no.
El abogado defensor Michael Haller siempre ha creído que sabría reconocer a un cliente inocente. Pero la defensa de Louis Roulet, un rico heredero detenido por el intento de asesinato de una prostituta, da un giro a la trayectoria del abogado. Por una parte, supone defender a alguien presuntamente inocente; por otra, implica unos ingresos desacostumbrados. Poco a poco, y gracias a la ayuda de Raul Levin (investigador con el que colabora habitualmente), Haller descubre cabos sueltos en el caso Roulet. «Ningún cliente asusta más que un hombre inocente», J. Michael Haller, abogado penalista.
Para el abogado Michael Haller, defender al magnate de Hollywood Walter Elliot de la acusación de doble asesinato es lo que en la jerga de su oficio se llama un filón: mucho dinero, publicidad gratuita durante el juicio y una investigación plagada de contradicciones y muy fácil de desmontar. Pero cuando los filones son una trampa, pueden acabar con tu carrera profesional y, lo que es peor, con tu vida.
Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch together take on a seemingly unwinnable case in Michael Connelly's blistering bestseller.§When Mickey Haller is invited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney to prosecute a case for him, he knows something strange is going on. Mickey's a defence lawyer, one of the best in the business, and to switch sides like this would be akin to asking a fox to guard the hen-house. But the high-profile case of Jason Jessup, a convicted child-killer who spent almost 25 years on death row before DNA evidence freed him, is an intriguing one ... §Eager for the publicity and drawn to the challenge, Mickey takes the case, with Detective Harry Bosch on board as his lead investigator. But as a new trial date is set, it starts to look like he's been set up. Mickey and Harry are going to have to dig deep into the past and find the truth about what really happened to the victim all those years ago.
In tough times, crime is one of the few things that still pays, but if defence attorney Mickey Haller was expecting an uptick in business during the economic downturn, the reality is a different story. Even people needing legal representation to keep them out of jail are having to make cut-backs, it seems. In fact, the most significant part of Mickey's business right now is not about keeping clients out of jail but about keeping a roof over their heads, as the foreclosure boom hits thousands of people who were granted unrealistic mortgages in the good times and now face being kicked to the curb by ruthless corporations. Lisa Trammel had been a client of Mickey's for eight months - his very first foreclosure case - and although so far he'd managed to stop the bank from taking her house, the strain and sense of injustice are beginning to take their toll. But now the bank's CEO, Mitchell Bondurant, has been found in the bank's car park with a bullet in his brain, and Lisa is about to be indicted for murder. For Mickey, it's back to what he does best on the biggest stage of all, but if he thought defending Lisa Trammel was going to be a walk in the park, he'd be wrong. Not only is he about to learn some startling truths about his client, but also about himself. By the time the verdict is in, Mickey's whole world will have been turned upside down.
The 'Lincoln Lawyer' grapples with a haunting case in a gripping thriller from bestselling author Michael Connelly. Mickey Haller gets the text 'Call me ASAP - 187', and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Suddenly, Mickey's not just trying to get his client off a murder charge, but there is a more personal connection: the victim was Gloria Dayton - his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow. Far from saving her, Haller may have been her downfall. Haunted by the ghosts of his own past, and with his own guilt or redemption on the line, he desperately needs to find out who Gloria really was and who, ultimately, was responsible for her death.
This book features an excerpt from "The Dark Hours," providing readers with a glimpse into its intriguing narrative and themes. It invites exploration of the story's depth and characters, setting the stage for a compelling reading experience.
Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the
chances of winning are one in a million. He agrees to represent a woman in
prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy. Despite her conviction
four years earlier, she still maintains her innocence. Haller enlists his half
brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, as investigator. Reviewing the
case, Bosch sees something that doesn't add up, and a sheriff's department
intent on bringing a quick search for justice in the killing of one of its
own.The path to justice for both the lawyer and his investigator is fraught
with danger from those who don't want the case reopened. And they will stop at
nothing to keep the Haller-Bosch dream team from uncovering what the deputy's
killing was really about.CRIME DOESN'T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY:'The pre-
eminent detective novelist of his generation'IAN RANKIN'The best mystery
writer in the world'GQ'A superb natural storyteller'LEE CHILD'A master'STEPHEN
KING'America's greatest living crime writer'DAILY EXPRESS'One of the great
storytellers of crime fiction'SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
