Pelican Brief: A Novel

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. 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.

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