Longtime defense attorney mickey haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, new DNA evidence means convicted killer jason jessup has b...Longtime defense attorney mickey haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, new DNA evidence means convicted killer jason jessup has been granted another trial. Haller is convinced jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, lapd detective Harry Bosch.