The Pelican Brief | John Grisham | Supreme Court Murders -- No Clear Motive

The Pelican Brief | John Grisham | Definitely something you can't stop reading

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The Pelican Brief

	The Pelican Brief John Grisham Island, 1993 - 436 pages average customer review:based on 215 reviews view larger image
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Supreme Court Murders -- No Clear Motive

Washington wakes up to the gruesome news that two members of the Supreme Court have been murdered overnight. The shocking part was in their diversity. The old, should have retired years ago, Democrat Justice Rosenberg and the younger Republican Justice Jensen. The fact that they were almost always on opposite sides of any issue left law enforcement with no clear political motive. The only clues left behind seemed to be ones of the killer's choosing. A nylon cord used to garrote Jensen as he sat in a movie house watching a porno film. The Rosenberg affair was messy - three people dead, three 22-caliber bullets to the head of each victim Rosenberg, a guard and an aid.
Down in bayou country Tulane University law professor Thomas Callahan on hearing the news got roaring drunk to ease the pain. Rosenberg was one of his idols and he couldn't believe the end had come.
While the whole country pondered the reason behind the killings Darby Shaw, a bright law student and bed partner of professor Callahan turns sleuth. Ms. Shaw pores over the current Supreme Court docket and eventually comes up with a promising case. And for the next four days she shuffles through pages of affidavits detailing lies and abuses by lawyers and their clients.
In the end Darby Shaw writes an eight-page draft of what will later be called the Pelican Brief. Shaw is only half convinced that she is on to something, however, in spite of her skepticism she turns the pages over to Callahan.
Callahan attends the Rosenberg funeral in Washington and passes the brief along to a colleague. And once copies of those pages get into the wrong hands Darby Shaw becomes the hunted.
John Grisham takes us through a fast paced cat and mouse investigation, and in the end solves the puzzle to everyone's satisfaction.

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Definitely something you can't stop reading

Very interesting plot, just probably a little bit unrealistic in certain passages, but awesome in the way the plot is progressively revealed and the truths behind the machinations investigated by the main characters are unveiled. Also, very interesting legal component.

Intrigue and Lots of Adventure

The story of a young, second year Tulane University law student, Darby Shaw, getting in way over her head when she inadvertently writes a brief outlining the possible links to the murders of two Supreme Court Justices. Just as Darby feels her theory is ridiculous and tosses it aside, her lover as well as Professor of constitutional law, Thomas Callahan, picks it up to read and decides it merits the review by his friend who just happens to be general counsel for the FBI. As the brief, now known as the Pelican Brief (for reasons of protection of a rare breed of pelicans and the people who are out to steal the land they need to survive for greed's sake) makes its way all the way up to a connection with the President of the United States, people on all levels associated with either the workings of the brief or with Darby herself, begin to die. Darby finds herself running for her life, with not a soul she can trust. Grisham takes us through a nail-biting scenario of dirty lawyers, dirty politics and an innocent girl fighting for her life. I felt the characters became difficult to keep up with and I had to totally concentrate on each and every scenario. The story is the peak of deception as well as a very well developed theory of environmental espionage. If you want to read a book that will really make you think, then definitely get a copy of "The Pelican Brief." It is much better than the movie.

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Classic Grisham

In this early novel by Grisham, he dives into the intrigue and secrets of Washington insiders, the murder of 2 supreme court justices, and the conspiracy behind it. A law student at Tulane University writes a brief nicknamed the Pelican Brief in which she proposes one of the president's financial supporter's link to the murders. This happens to fall into the hands of the FBI then makes its way to the President and CIA. They launch an all out investigation but apparently whomever ordered the original murders doesn't like this and begins knocking off more people. The law student connects with a reporter from the Washington Post and they go on a wild chase to prove the veracity of the brief while running from the killers.

Written in his classic legal thriller style, The Pelican Brief is quality Grisham fiction and will keep you turning the pages to the end.

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