Isabel Duncan is a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab and her best, maybe only, friends appear to be the six bonobo apes with which she is currently working. The apes have been taught to communicate using American Sign Language, and she is studying and documenting their ability to express human-like emotions when a devastating explosion destroys the lab, critically injuring her and freeing the apes. A reporter who had visited the lab before the explosion, John Thigpen, is sent to cover the story of the explosion and he forms an alliance with Isabel to locate and reclaim the apes.
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Mickey Haller is used to sitting on the left side of the courtroom, beside whatever defendant is currently paying for his expert legal counsel, but when the prosecutor's office asks him to be independent special prosecutor in the retrial of child molester and murderer, Jason Jessup, he can't refuse. Aside from the fact that he'll be assisted by his ex-wife Maggie McPherson, for whom he still has feelings, and his newly discovered half brother, Detective Harry Bosch, Mickey Haller accepts the assignment because after 24 years in prison, the evil Jessup is
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