Product Description
This #1 bestselling legal thriller from Michael Connelly 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 Dostoevsky of crime literature.”
Mickey 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… More >>
#1 by Margaret Cox on March 26, 2010 - 12:30 am
I am currently going through three (3) different books; all three (3) of which I have borrowed from the Library; & which I received prior to ordering Lincoln Lawyer; & just late yesterday afternoon, renewed them all. I can only say in the past I have enjoyed ALL legal books/thrillers, regardless of the Author, unless the book contains smut. If an Author has a good plot, he does not need to add smut. Do hope you will be able to receive suitable reviews from others. Hopefully, another time I can be of assistance. M.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by BILL E JONES on March 26, 2010 - 2:38 am
THE AUTHER IS VERY GOOD IN HIS OTHER BOOKS BUT THIS ONE WAS A WASTE OF MONEY AFTER 2 CHAPTERS IT WAS TRASH
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by R. B. Garrett on March 26, 2010 - 3:33 am
I thought that I purchased a hardcover edition of this book but instead received a paperback. Maybe I missed it but it should be made perfectly clear what you are odering. As a result I did not read the book and gave it away.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Tommy Gray Belt on March 26, 2010 - 5:24 am
LIKE THE CHARACTER AND THE INSIGHT INTO THE CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEYS WORLD BUT GIVE ME BOSCH!
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by Joseph Roy on March 26, 2010 - 5:32 am
SPOILER WARNING. On page 79, a character uses the word “faggots.” This “homophobic” comment gives away the ending of the novel, in the tiresome style of the cop shows on television.
In nearly every episode of a TV cop show, the ending is given away by a propagandistic clue that is as subtle as a nightstick. The clue takes either of two standard forms:
(1) A character is “politically incorrect.” For example, he’s a “racist,” a “sexist,” a “homophobe,” a rich white businessman, a cigarette smoker, a gun owner, or a user of correct English grammar. Guilty.
(2) A character asked to “cooperate” with the police fails to become instantly servile. For example, an office manager abruptly asked to hand over the personnel files of all employees in the company responds politely, “Let me just check first with our company lawyer.” Guilty.
We expect such craven awkwardness from television writers; we don’t expect it from novelists.
I have read every Michael Connelly novel published so far; I don’t plan to read any more. If Mr. Connelly is willing to give away his own ending in order to make a silly ideological gesture, then I infer that he no longer cares to aim his books at intelligent readers.
Rating: 1 / 5