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Subscribe for $3 a Month. Plot Summary. Michael “Mick” Haller is a criminal defense attorney working in Los Angeles. He spends most of his time working out of his Lincoln Town Car with his driver, Earl. Mick is a fast talking, smart attorney with a complicated personal life. Accustomed to representing criminals, Mick makes his money by ...
The Lincoln Lawyer. The Lincoln Lawyer is a 2005 novel, the 16th by American crime writer Michael Connelly. It introduces Los Angeles attorney Mickey Haller, half-brother of Connelly's mainstay character Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch . It was adapted as a 2011 film of the same name, starring Matthew McConaughey.
- Michael Connelly
- 2005
Book Summary. A stunning display of novelistic mastery - as human, as gripping, and as whiplash-surprising as any novel yet from the writer Publishers Weekly has called "today's Dostoyevsky of crime literature. Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn't recognize innocence if it stood right in front of him.
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Written by people who wish to remain anonymous. The novel follows Mick Haller, a criminal defense attorney from Lincoln. He is a charismatic and well-spoken attorney who works on lowering the sentences of the convicted criminals. One day, he is approached by a wealthy man called Louis Roulet, who is accused with the crime of rape.
Oct 3, 2005 · Connelly’s 16th book and first outing with Mickey Haller - “The Lincoln Lawyer” - was first published back in 2005. Mickey is the son of Michael Haller, a famous defense attorney in the Los Angeles area back in the sixties and seventies. Mickey himself is a somewhat successful criminal defense attorney operating in Los Angeles County.
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The Lincoln Lawyer Reading Guide. Print these questions and use them to lead a discussion about The Lincoln Lawyer. Spoiler Warning! This guide does address the entire book. 1. “There is no client as scary as an innocent man.”. This is the very first line of the book, spoken by J. Michael Haller, a famous criminal defense attorney and the ...
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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.
