The Proving Ground

<p><b>Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - leaves criminal court behind for his first civil lawsuit. But to him, this is still a murder trial.</b><br><br>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?<br><br>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.<br><br>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...<br><br><b>From the author of the books behind the #1 Netflix show <i>The Lincoln Lawyer,</i> and #1 Amazon Prime series <i>Bosch </i>and <i>Ballard</i>.</b><br><b><br>*****</b><br><b><br>PRAISE FOR MICHAEL CONNELLY & THE LINCOLN LAYWER THRILLERS:</b><br><br>'An incredible writer' <b>RICHARD OSMAN</b><br><br>'The Lincoln Lawyer series keeps getting better' <b><i>WASHINGTON POST</i></b><br><br>'A superb natural storyteller' <b>LEE CHILD</b><br><br>'The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation' <b>IAN RANKIN</b><br><br>'Mickey Haller is a worthy colleague of Atticus Finch' <b><i>LOS ANGELES TIMES</i></b><br><br>'A master of the genre' <b>STEPHEN KING</b><br><br>'A terrific writer' <b><i>THE TIMES</i></b><br><br> 'A powerhouse, an unstoppable force in crime fiction' <b>MICK HERRON</b><br><br>'Crime thriller writing of the highest order' <b><i>GUARDIAN</i></b><br><br>'Nobody writes a better modern thriller' <b><i>EVENING STANDARD</i></b><br><br> 'One of the world's greatest crime writers' <b><i>DAILY MAIL</i></b><br><br>'The master of modern crime fiction' <b><i>EXPRESS</i></b></p>