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The Pelican Brief
I can't tell you how many times I've read The Pelican Brief to admire its unique structure. I love to wax poetic about Grisham's action-packed legal thriller. The story opens with the assassination of two Supreme Court judges, then breathlessly follows a young law student who believes she knows why. She can't help investigating, and writes a brief of her findings. When the brief travels from the trash to the FBI, all hell breaks loose. This is backlist at its best: stories about seeking justice in the face of political corruption and cover-ups will never get old.
About the Book
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.
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