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Book Review of The Pelican Brief

The Pelican Brief
The Pelican Brief
Author: John Grisham
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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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 swiftly garroted to death. The next America learns that two of it's Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. In New Orleans, a young law student, Darby Shaw, prepares a legal brief. To Darby, it was no mores 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 news-break hotter than Watergate. To help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White House 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.