The Pelican Brief

The Story

In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisperááon the front floor of a posh home... In a seedyááD.C. porno house a patron is swiftlyáágarroted to death... The next day America learnsááthat two of its Supreme Court justices have beenááassassinated. And in New Orleans, a young lawáástudent prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it wasááno more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliantááguess. To the Washington establishment it wasáápolitical dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to aáámurder -- a murder intended for her. Goingááunderground, she finds there is only one person she canáátrust -- an ambitious reporter after a newsbreakááhotter than Watergate -- to help her piece together theáádeadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous ofááLouisiana and the White House's inner sanctums, aááviolent cover-up is being engineered. For somone hasááread Darby's brief. Someone who will stop atáánothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkableáácrime.