The Proving Ground 9781398719088 Paperback

Mickey Haller – The Lincoln Lawyer – leaves criminal court behind for his first civil lawsuit. But to him, this is still a murder trial.An AI company’s chatbot encouraged a sixteen-year-old boy to kill his ex-girlfriend. Can Haller prove the company knew the dangers of its own creation?To do so, he turns to Jack McEvoy – a journalist who knows how powerful the coming wave will be – and together they soon uncover a whistleblower in hiding.As the tech titans try to buy or bully their way out, the scale of their courtroom battle before them becomes clear. Because billions are at stake – along with countless lives – in an all or nothing case, which could change everything…From the author of the books behind the #1 Netflix showThe Lincoln Lawyer,and #1 Amazon Prime seriesBoschandBallard.*****PRAISE FOR MICHAEL CONNELLY & THE LINCOLN LAYWER THRILLERS:’An incredible writer’RICHARD OSMAN’The Lincoln Lawyer series keeps getting better’WASHINGTON POST’A superb natural storyteller’LEE CHILD’The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation’IAN RANKIN’Mickey Haller is a worthy colleague of Atticus Finch’LOS ANGELES TIMES’A master of the genre’STEPHEN KING’A terrific writer’THE TIMES’A powerhouse, an unstoppable force in crime fiction’MICK HERRON’Crime thriller writing of the highest order’GUARDIAN’Nobody writes a better modern thriller’EVENING STANDARD’One of the world’s greatest crime writers’DAILY MAIL’The master of modern crime fiction’EXPRESS