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The trick if you are sitting at the defense table is to be patient. To wait. Not just for any lie. But for the one you can grab on to and forge like hot iron into a sharpened blade. You then use that blade to rip the case open and spill its guts on the floor.

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Michael Connelly, The Brass Verdict, Orion Books 2008 1988

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Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly is the internationally bestselling author of the Detective Harry Bosch series and Mickey Haller defense Lincoln lawyer. He has won - among others - the CWA Diamond Dagger, the highest prize in British crime writing, as well as the Edgar and Anthony Awards

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