Mickey Haller faces the prosecution's most damaging evidence—massive gunshot residue on Trevor Elliott's hands and clothes that appears to prove he fired the murder weapon. Working late through case files, Mickey connects Jerry Vincent's casino visits to the Sheriff's vehicle maintenance facility and discovers Trevor rode in the same patrol car that transported Eli Wyms—who fired over ninety rounds at deputies twelve hours earlier—without the vehicle being cleaned between arrests. Mickey presents three witnesses proving the gunshot residue transferred from the car rather than from firing a gun, vindicating Jerry's original theory. He also introduces Anton Shavar, whose ex-wife had an affair with victim Jan Rilz, as an alternative suspect, though the prosecution reveals Shavar was in Miami during the murders.

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