The Pelican Brief by John Grisham

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Bibliographic Details

• Author: John Grisham
• Title: The Pelican Brief
• Publisher: ‎ Doubleday Books
• Publication Date: March 1992
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 371 pages‏
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0385421982
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0385421980
• Lexile measure: ‎ 660L
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.45 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.47 x 1.2 x 9.54 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Good (may show some minor discoloration on pages / page edges)
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good (may show minor shelf / handling wear)

Synopsis:

#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.

About the Author:

John Grisham is the author of forty-seven consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include The Boys From Biloxi, The Judge's List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series.

Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.

When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.

John lives on a farm in central Virginia.