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Barcode30293102318545
StatusChecked Out
LocationClark County
Call NoMystery F Conn
TitleThe proving ground : Mickey Haller bk. 8 / Michael Connelly
AuthorConnelly, Michael, 1956- author.
CollectionF Mystery
Total Circ1
NumReserves1
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293102318545Mystery F Conn11/4/2025 Due on 12/3/2025Clark County

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780316563826 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 031656382X (hardcover)
Personal Name Connelly, Michael, 1956- author.
Title Statement The proving ground : Mickey Haller bk. 8 / Michael Connelly
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025.
Physical Description 387 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Statement Mickey Haller ; bk. 08
Summary, Etc. "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. It is said that machines became smarter than humans on the day in 1997 that IBM's Deep Blue defeated chess master Garry Kasparov with a gambit called "the knight's sacrifice." Haller will take a similar gambit in court to defeat the mega forces of the AI industry lined up against him and his clients"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject-Personal Name Haller, Mickey (Fictitious character) Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Artificial intelligence Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Journalists Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Trials Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Lawyers Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Suspense fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Thrillers (Fiction)
Index Term-Genre/Form Legal fiction (Literature)
Index Term-Genre/Form Detective and mystery fiction.

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