Lincoln Lawyer

Author: Michael Connelly
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Generally, criminal defense lawyers always hope their clients are innocent. But Mike Harlan's view is exactly the opposite. If the client is innocent, once the defense fails, the innocent person will face imprisonment, and the lawyer's conscience will be condemned. An guilty client, on the other hand, is an endless source of wealth. Even if he is sentenced to prison, as a lawyer, Mike Harlan will not feel guilty. Therefore, he never cares whether his clients really committed the crimes they are accused of. Now, Mike Harlan takes over a case of harming a prostitute, which puts him in a dilemma. On one hand, he clearly knows his client did commit a heinous crime, but Mike must defend him as innocent. On the other hand, he also learns that his client murdered another prostitute with the same method two years ago but escaped justice, leaving an innocent person in prison to bear the injustice, and Mike Harlan was the lawyer who forced that innocent person to confess. To uphold his principles, Mike prepares to play a dangerous game—to make the murderer win the current case while holding him accountable for the crime from two years ago. But Mike is too confident; he didn't expect that once the game starts, it would be impossible to control, and his family, colleagues, and friends would all be drawn into danger.