num_pages: 624
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 somone has  read Darby's brief. Someone who will stop at  nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable  crime.From the Paperback edition.
language: English
title: The Pelican Brief
titlecomplete: The Pelican Brief
characters: Victor Mattiece, Gavin  Verheek, Thomas Callahan, Gray Grantham, Darby Shaw
genres: Law, Legal Thriller, Mystery, Adult Fiction, Suspense, Novels, Thriller, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 423274
places: Washington, D.C., New Orleans, Louisiana
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Evergreen Teen Book Award
publisher: Random House Large Print