Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car ... For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence, it's about negotiation and manipulation ... A Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years ... Then someone close to him is murdered and Haller discovers that his search for innocence has brought him face-to-face with evil as pure as a flame