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    The Lincoln Lawyer

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    The Lincoln Lawyer follows defense attorney Mickey Haller who runs his practice from his car, representing clients in Los Angeles' criminal underworld. He takes on his highest profile case yet defending wealthy real estate heir Louis Roulet against an attempted murder charge. During the investigation, Haller comes to believe his client committed an earlier murder for which another man was convicted. When Roulet threatens Haller's family, Haller works behind the scenes to undermine his own case and prove Roulet's guilt, risking his career to serve true justice.

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    The Lincoln Lawyer

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    The Lincoln Lawyer follows defense attorney Mickey Haller who runs his practice from his car, representing clients in Los Angeles' criminal underworld. He takes on his highest profile case yet defending wealthy real estate heir Louis Roulet against an attempted murder charge. During the investigation, Haller comes to believe his client committed an earlier murder for which another man was convicted. When Roulet threatens Haller's family, Haller works behind the scenes to undermine his own case and prove Roulet's guilt, risking his career to serve true justice.

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    The Lincoln Lawyer follows defense attorney Mickey Haller who runs his practice from his car, representing clients in Los Angeles' criminal underworld. He takes on his highest profile case yet defending wealthy real estate heir Louis Roulet against an attempted murder charge. During the investigation, Haller comes to believe his client committed an earlier murder for which another man was convicted. When Roulet threatens Haller's family, Haller works behind the scenes to undermine his own case and prove Roulet's guilt, risking his career to serve true justice.

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    The Lincoln Lawyer

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    The Lincoln Lawyer follows defense attorney Mickey Haller who runs his practice from his car, representing clients in Los Angeles' criminal underworld. He takes on his highest profile case yet defending wealthy real estate heir Louis Roulet against an attempted murder charge. During the investigation, Haller comes to believe his client committed an earlier murder for which another man was convicted. When Roulet threatens Haller's family, Haller works behind the scenes to undermine his own case and prove Roulet's guilt, risking his career to serve true justice.

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    The Lincoln Lawyer

    The Lincoln Lawyer  is a 2005 crime novel by American author Michael


    Connelly. Set in Los Angeles, California, it follows the protagonist
    Mickey Haller, a criminal defense lawyer who works for clients who
    inhabit the city’s criminal underbelly. Haller begins a case of
    unprecedented magnitude when a wealthy L.A. realtor, Louis Roulet,
    asks him to help defend his name against an attempted murder charge.
    Haller soon realizes that Roulet is manipulating his story, and sets
    out to indict him and exonerate the man who was wrongfully blamed,
    Jesus Menendez. Haller is the half-brother of Harry Bosch, a
    recurring detective character in many of Connelly’s other
    novels. The Lincoln Lawyer  was adapted into a neo-noir film of the
    same name in 2011.

    The novel begins as Haller runs errands around Los Angeles for his
    many clients. He virtually runs his law practice from his Lincoln,
    with a private driver, Earl—a man who is in debt to Haller and
    struck a deal to pay off his legal fees. Haller has spent his entire
    career defending low-level criminals, steering away from the more
    treacherous cases. His clients include a criminal biker gang nearby,
    run by Eddie Vogel.

    One day, Haller is approached with a request to represent Louis


    Roulet, a rich Beverly Hills resident and the inheritor of a massive
    estate from his real estate mogul mother, Mary. Roulet has been
    accused of assaulting and nearly murdering Regina Campo, a
    prostitute. Roulet claims he is completely innocent and was framed
    as Campo’s attacker. Haller investigates, finding a striking
    similarity between Roulet’s case and one of his previous cases:
    that of the now-convicted murderer Jesus Menendez.

    Haller’s memories of Menendez’s case resurface, and he newly


    regrets recommending that he plead guilty to avoid capital
    punishment. He visits Menendez at prison; upon showing him Roulet’s
    photo, Menendez becomes extremely upset. His reaction causes Haller
    to believe that Roulet committed the murder for which Menendez was
    convicted. However, because he is Roulet’s attorney, he is unable
    to inform any investigation.

    Not long after, Roulet breaks into Haller’s home. He boasts that he
    committed the murder and threatens to kill Haller’s daughter and
    ex-wife if he should tell anyone. After he leaves, Haller discovers
    a voicemail from his assistant, Mr. Levin, claiming that he found a
    way to exonerate Menendez. Unfortunately, Levin is found murdered
    with a pistol that was stolen from Haller’s home. Detective
    Lankford, who despises Haller for his self-enrichment from the
    defense of criminals, connects Levin’s murder weapon to Haller and
    tries to investigate him. Meanwhile, Haller is forced to defend
    Roulet against Ms. Campo. In the background, he tries to find a way
    to undermine his own case. He wins the case against Campo just as he
    secures Roulet’s arrest via an informant from jail who knew about
    his role in the first murder.

    Due to a lack of conclusive evidence, Roulet is released and tries


    to kill Haller’s family. Fortunately, he is intercepted and
    attacked by the biker gang led by Vogel. Meanwhile, Haller’s ex-
    wife connects Roulet to the first murder via a parking ticket stub.
    When Haller returns home he is ambushed by Roulet’s mother.
    Declaring that she killed Levin to help protect Roulet, she shoots
    Haller. Haller, wounded, shoots her, and makes it to the hospital.
    When he wakes, he learns that Menendez has been exonerated and that
    the city will likely convict Roulet. He meets the biker gang again
    and promises to work on their next case for free to repay them for
    their help. The Lincoln Lawyer’s entrepreneurial protagonist
    adheres to his own moral compass, one that ultimately proves
    virtuous when he jeopardizes his own career to convict the murderer
    he is supposed to serve.

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