The pelican brief

The Resource The pelican brief

Label

The pelican brief

Statement of responsibility

John Grisham

Language

eng

Summary

Two Supreme Court justices, one liberal and one conservative, are assassinated in one night. The country is stunned and baffled; the FBI has no clues. But Darby Shaw, a brilliant law student at Tulane, thinks she has the answer. Days of digging in the law library's computers have led her to an obscure connection between the two justices. She fleshes out her beliefs in a meticulous though wildly speculative brief that builds a strong case against a most unlikely suspect. But her suspect has powerful friends. One evening, outside a New Orleans restaurant, she narrowly escapes an assassin's car bomb. Someone has read her brief. Someone who wants her dead. She contacts investigative reporter Gary Grantham and convinces him that she's onto the biggest cover-up since Watergate. Together they go underground, trying to survive long enough to expose the real truth.--Adapted from dust jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

Interest level

Middle Grade

LC call number

PS3557.R5355

LC item number

P4 1992

Literary form

fiction

NLM call number

PS3557.R5355

NLM item number

P384 1992

Reading level

6.8

Study program name

Accelerated Reader

Context

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