Assisted by his trusty chauffeur and an efficient investigator, Michael Haller is a lawyer whose speciality is getting off junkies and small-time crooks using all kinds of unscrupulous methods. Then he's offered a ton of money to defend a playboy from a filthy rich LA family after the man is accused of murdering a prostitute. At first thinking he's gotten the case of the century, Haller soon realizes his client may not be as innocent as he thinks...

Solid thriller with a funky hip-hop soundtrack that seems to come straight from the 70's, starring Matthew McConaughey in one of his best roles. The extremely crafty and therefore well-conceived script is by Michael Connelly, one of America's best thriller writers of today, whose novel Blood Work was adapted into a movie in 2002 by Clint Eastwood.