The pelican brief - john grisham

In suburban Georgetown a killers Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home.

In a seedy D.

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 Houses inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered.

For somone has read Darbys brief.

Someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime.