# The Pelican Brief

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- Book: [The Pelican Brief](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-grisham/the-pelican-brief) ([The Pelican Brief.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-grisham/the-pelican-brief.md))
- Authors: [John Grisham](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-grisham)
- Publisher: hodder_stoughton
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-7360-589-3
- Published: 2014-09-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

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 garrotted 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's political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder-a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds that there is only one person-an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate-she can trust 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. " Gripping... a genuine page-turner. Grisham is a skilful craftsman." - The New York Times (P)1992 Random House, LLC