The Pelican Brief

<p>In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper&nbsp;&nbsp;on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy&nbsp;&nbsp;D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to&nbsp;&nbsp;death... The next day America learns that two of its&nbsp;&nbsp;Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And&nbsp;&nbsp;in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a&nbsp;&nbsp;legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was no more than a&nbsp;&nbsp;legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the&nbsp;&nbsp;Washington establishment it was political dynamite.&nbsp;&nbsp;Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder — a murder&nbsp;&nbsp;intended for her. Going underground, she finds&nbsp;&nbsp;there is only one person she can trust — an&nbsp;&nbsp;ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate&nbsp;&nbsp;— to help her piece together the deadly puzzle.&nbsp;&nbsp;Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the&nbsp;&nbsp;White House's inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is&nbsp;&nbsp;being engineered. For somone has read Darby's&nbsp;&nbsp;brief. Someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the&nbsp;&nbsp;evidence of an unthinkable crime.</p> <p>Published in March, 1991, The Firm was hailed by reviewers, booksellers, and readers alike, and soon became the number one bestseller across America. Now comes Grisham's equally gripping new novel: an unforgettable story that begins with the simultaneous assassinations of two Supreme Court justices. . . . </p>

Author(s): John Grisham  

ISBN 10: 0440245931
ISBN 13: 9780440245933
Pages: 496
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publication: January 2010