The Pelican Brief

by John Grisham

To Darby Shaw her brief was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. But 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 and swamps of Louisiana and the inner sanctums of the White House, a violent cover-up is being engineered, and it involves the Supreme Court of the United States.Someone has read Darby's brief. Someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime.