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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


In subruban Georgetown a killer's reeboks whisper on the floor of a posh home...
In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is switfly garroted to death...

The next day America leanrs that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal breif...

To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot int eh dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it was political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder - a murder intended for her.