The Lincoln Lawyer: Summary and book reviews of The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly, plus links to an excerpt from The Lincoln Lawyer and a biography of Michael Connelly.
The Lincoln Lawyer
by Michael Connelly
Hardcover: Oct 2005,
416 pages.
Paperback: Jun 2006,
528 pages.
Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he
wouldn't recognize innocence if it stood right in front of him. But what he
should have been on the watch for was evil.
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 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.
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.
The Lincoln Lawyer is 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."
BOOK REVIEWS
Media Reviews
Library Journal - Jeff Ayers
Connelly...proves he can handle even the legal thriller
genre with this intricate and cynical look into the criminal justice system.
Kirkus Reviews
Contains everything readers have come to expect from powerhouse
Connelly.
Booklist - Allison Block
Starred Review. It has all the right stuff: a sinuous plot, crisp dialogue, and a roster of reprehensible characters.
Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Veteran bestseller Connelly enters the crowded legal thriller field with flash and panache.
The Washington Post - Jonathan Yardley
Mickey Haller...is as cynical about the law as any of Grisham's lawyers, but
one doesn't sense that this cynicism is drawn out of the deep well of
experience that enriches Grisham's work. Still, if the best of Grisham's legal
novels grade in at a solid A, The Lincoln Lawyer gets an equally solid
B+, which isn't exactly bad for the first time out...it's not a pretty story,
but the world in which Mickey Haller works isn't a pretty place. Michael
Connelly knows it all too well and writes about it with chilling authority.
He's not a ';genre' novelist but the real thing, taking us into parts
of the real America that most of our novelists never visit because they don't
even know where, or what, they are.
The New York Times - Janet Maslin
The book is haunted by Mickey's worst nightmare: the thought of having to defend an innocent man. He starts out without the foggiest idea of what to do with someone like that. But by the end of the story an Honest Abe conscience has begun to kick in. That's when Mickey becomes a Connelly character through and through.
Recent Reader Reviews
Rated of 5
by debbykc what a great read!!! What a fun book: Fast, quirky and a real page turner.
Rated of 5
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