The Proving Ground

Michael Connelly

£22.00


Following his 'resurrection walk' and need for a new direction, Mickey Haller turns to public interest litigation, filing a civil lawsuit against an artificial intelligence company whose chatbot told a sixteen-year-old boy that it was okay for him to kill his ex-girlfriend for her disloyalty. Representing the victim's family, Mickey's case explores the mostly unregulated and exploding AI business and the lack of training guardrails. Along the way he joins up with a journalist named Jack McEvoy, who wants to be a fly on the wall during the trial in order to write a book about it. But Mickey puts him to work going through the mountain of printed discovery materials in the case. McEvoy's digging ultimate delivers the key witness, a whistleblower who has been too afraid to speak up. The case is fraught with danger because billions are at stake.


Author(s): Connelly, Michael
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 21/10/2025
Pagination: 387 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Orion Books
Published By: Orion Books
Book Classification: Crime & mystery fiction|Disaster control & fire protection law|Disaster control & fire protection law|Disaster control & fire protection law|Human-computer interaction|Human-computer interaction|Impact of science & technology on society|Thriller / suspense fiction
Dimensions: 236 x 156 x 38
Weight: 620
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781398719064

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