num_pages: 472
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Pelican Brief
titlecomplete: The Pelican Brief
characters: Victor Mattiece, Darby Shaw, Gray Grantham, Thomas Callahan, Gavin  Verheek
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Law, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Adult Fiction, Crime, Legal Thriller, Suspense
ratings_count: 423268
places: New Orleans, Louisiana, Washington, D.C.
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Evergreen Teen Book Award
publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C