The Pelican Brief [Paperback]

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 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 skillful  craftsman."—New York Times Book  Review.

"Grisham has done it again!"—Chicago Tribune.

"A fast-paced thriller…it's got the unmistakable Grisham style—conspiracy in high places, evil  and innocent lawyers, assassins and a plot that  will keep you reading into the small hours of the  morning."—Cincinnati  Post

“Superb drama . . . page-turning escapism at its best.”—New York Law Journal

“A first-class thriller.”—Chattanooga Times Free Press

“There is a propulsiveness to [Grisham’s] narrative that keeps the pages turning briskly.”—People
John Grisham has written twenty-one novels, including the recent #1 New York Times bestsellers The Associate and The Appeal, as well as one work of nonfiction, lă5