The Pelican Brief by John Grisham 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. March 1993 edition Island Books Paperback 436 pages Pages in unmarked condition. Cover has some wear to edges and corners, chipping. Cover has creases and long indentations.