THE PROVING GROUND – Michael Connelly

"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 show The Lincoln Lawyer, and #1 Amazon Prime series Bosch and Ballard. ***** 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"