John Grisham The Pelican Brief Paperback Book

Two Supreme Court Justices are dead, their murders unsolved. But one woman might have found the answer if she can live to tell it. Darby Shaw is a brilliant New Orleans legal student with a sharp political mind. For her own amusement, she draws up a legal brief showing how the judges might have been murdered for political reasons, and shows it to her professor. He shows it to his friend, an FBI lawyer. Then the professor dies in a car bombing. And Darby realises that her brief, which pointed to a vast presidential conspiracy, might be right. Someone is intent on silencing Darby for good somebody who will stop at nothing to preserve the secrets of the Pelican Brief...A master at the art of deft characterisation and the skilful delivery of hairraising crescendos Irish IndependentJohn Grisham is the master of legal fiction Jodi PicoultThe best thriller writer alive Ken FollettJohn Grisham has perfected the art of cooking up convincing, fastpaced thrillers TelegraphGrisham is a superb, instinctive storyteller The TimesGrishams storytelling genius reminds us that when it comes to legal drama, the master is in a league of his own. Daily RecordMasterful when Grisham gets in the courtroom he lets rip, drawing scenes so real theyre not just alive, theyre pulsating MirrorA giant of the thriller genre TimeOut | John Grisham The Pelican Brief Paperback Book