The Pelican Brief

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front 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 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.

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Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 02/15/1992
ISBN: 9780385421980
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.40w x 1.25d

Review Citations: Booklist 01/15/1992 pg. 883
Booklist 03/15/1993 pg. 1342

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 11732 / Pelican Brief
Reading Level: 4.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 16