By Michael Connelly
This number 1 bestselling criminal mystery from Michael Connelly is a gorgeous demonstrate of novelistic mastery - as human, as gripping, and as whiplash-surprising as any novel but from the author Publishers Weekly has known as "today's Dostoevsky of crime literature."
Mickey Haller is a Lincoln attorney, a legal security legal professional who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln city vehicle, touring among the far-flung courthouses of l. a. to safeguard consumers of each variety. Bikers, con artists, inebriated drivers, drug purchasers - they're all on Mickey Haller's buyer record. For him, the legislation is never approximately guilt or innocence, it's approximately negotiation and manipulation. occasionally it's even approximately justice.
A Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a girl he picked up in a bar chooses Haller to protect him, and Mickey has his first high-paying customer in years. it's a security attorney's dream, what they name a franchise case. and because the proof stacks up, Haller involves think this can be the best case of his profession. Then anyone as regards to him is murdered and Haller discovers that his look for innocence has introduced him face-to-face with evil as natural as a flame. to flee with out being burned, he needs to set up each tactic, feint, and intuition in his arsenal - this time to avoid wasting his personal life.
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Watched intently by the other two, Beard was staring at the centrepiece, a thick column containing a mess of lines and cutaways that resolved at last into a quadruple helix making one complete turn, and at the base, in less detail, a boxy representation of a generator. One of the doodles showed a roofline, with a TV aerial and the helix set on a short vertical pole strapped to the side of a chimney – not a good mounting at all. For two minutes he stared in silence. ’ Braby said. ‘Well,’ Beard muttered.
Reflecting on the night before, he found it extraordinary that after a lifetime of infidelities, a night with an imaginary friend was no less exciting. For the first time in weeks he felt faintly cheerful, even whistled a show tune as he microwaved his supper, and when he saw himself in the gold-leaf sunking mirror in the cloakroom downstairs, thought his face had lost some fat and looked purposeful, with a shadow of cheekbone visible, and was, by the light of the thirty-watt bulb, somewhat noble, a possible effect of the sugary cholesterol-lowering yoghurt drink he was forcing himself to swallow each morning.
He kept this going for five minutes, his voice, then the woman’s, sometimes artfully overlapping the two. The house was silent, listening, of course. He went into the bathroom, ran a tap, flushed the lavatory and laughed out loud. Patrice should know that his lover was a wit. Then he gave out a muted kind of whoop. Patrice should know he was having fun. He did not sleep much that night. At four, after a long silence suggestive of tranquil intimacy, he opened his bedroom door while keeping up an insistent murmur, and went down the stairs backwards, bending forward to beat out on the treads with his palms the sound of his companion’s footfall, syncopated with his own.