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...when Nicholas J. Hartigan and David E. Haller ’03, third-year students at Harvard Law School, drive through the poorest neighborhoods of Boston, marked with swaths of abandoned triple-decker houses, they believe that “cash for keys” is only the best solution for the banks—not for the tenants or the community...
...Working at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, Hartigan and Haller have long represented tenants against banks, but when they realized less than half of foreclosure cases reached the courts, they knew they needed to go out and find the missing tenants...
...Haller is not “bad” but rather, “complicated”: he makes one client’s mother bleed her retirement fund, but he also hires a former felon as a driver, giving the young man a chance to go straight. Haller is an intriguing character and easily one of the finest Connelly has ever constructed...
...novel benefits from the author’s knowledge of details about the lurid legal arena. Connelly thanks several defense attorneys in his acknowledgements, and he writes that he observed proceedings in a courtroom—it shows. Haller glibly throws around jargon and tactics familiar to “defense pros,” and the novel’s exposition is a fascinating glimpse into the life of a skilled defense lawyer...
That life implodes when Haller is retained by Louis Ross Roulet, a rich realtor accused of violently beating up a call girl. Appearances are deceptive, and as Haller probes deeper, he suddenly finds that he must play the unusual role of upholding justice. He is a ruthless defense attorney who must be the hero, and Haller courageously rises to the occasion even as a savage, only-in-LA sociopath threatens to destroy him and his loved ones...