The Pelican Brief By John Grisham |
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"In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the floor
of a posh home. In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is garroted to death.
The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been
assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal
brief... To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it was political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder -- a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds there is only one person she can trust -- an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate -- to help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White House's inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For someone has read Darby's brief. Someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime." |