The Pelican Brief Contributor(s): Grisham, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0385339704 ISBN-13: 9780385339704 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2006 Annotation: 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | Legal |
Dewey: FIC |
Lexile Measure: 660 |
Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.3" W x 8" (0.65 lbs) 400 pages |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 11732 Reading Level: 4.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 16.0 |