The Pelican Brief

In suburban Georgetown a killer´s Reeboks whisper on the floor of a posh home... In seedy D.C. 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 brlliant guess. to the Washington establishment it was political dynamit. 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 House´s inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For someone has read Darby´s brief. Someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime.