Defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police who find the body of a client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is charged with murder and can't make the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge. Mickey elects to defend himself and must strategise and build his defence from his jail cell in the Twin Towers Correctional Center in downtown Los Angeles all the while looking over his shoulder - as an officer of the court he is an instant target. Mickey knows he's been framed. Now with the help of his trusted team he has to figure out who has plotted to destroy his life and why. Then he has to go before a judge and jury and prove his innocence. In his highest stakes case yet Mickey Haller fights for his life and shows why he is 'a worthy colleague of Atticus Finch...in the front of the pack in the legal thriller game' (Los Angeles Times).
