false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235574048m/79885.jpg 79885 36 Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller's father was a legendary lawyer whose clients included gangster Mickey Cohen. But Dad also passed on an important piece of advice that's especially relevant 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 higher 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 story tear Mickey's theory of the case to shreds, his thoughts turn more to Jesus Menendez, a former client convicted of a similar crime who's now languishing in San Quentin. Connelly tellingly delineates the code of legal 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 trial, Mickey's feeling a few very reasonable doubts of his own. 1427801 2005 The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller, #1) total:3075|5:629|4:1347|3:923|2:152|1:24| 3075 11630 3878 360 5 5 false false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 20:27:07 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 18:17:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 3 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 09:08:22 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 09:40:00 -0800 2008
That's not writing, it's a regurgitating a cliche, and this book is litter with them, like confetti at New Year's Eve. The trouble is that the over use of cliched speeches and...more...]]> 0 2 false false Thu Feb 05 09:36:56 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:36:56 -0800 2009 The Lincoln Lawyer, a legal thriller, departs both in character and genre from Connelly's crime-fiction series starring Harry Bosch. As it turns out, Bosch and Haller are half brothers__a convenient device to link the novel to Connelly's popular series. Critics agree that his new character__a man wh...

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Connelly has a taught thriller where the ten...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 11:25:21 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 11:27:08 -0800 2009 Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln ...more...]]> 3 0 false true Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 17:08:50 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 17:10:35 -0700 2009
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