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Two Supreme Court Justices are dead. Their murders remain unsolved.
Darby Shaw, a brilliant and beautiful New Orleans legal student, draws up a speculative legal brief which links the deaths and uncovers an astonishing presidential conspiracy.
When her boyfriend is atomised in a car bomb, it becomes clear that somebody is intent on silencing Darby for good. Somebody who will stop at nothing to preserve the secrets of the Pelican Brief...
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For the first two thirds of the novel, I couldn't put it down. It was a bona fide page turner, but as more and more of the story unfolded, I couldn't help but feel that Grisham was somehow cheating me out of a better novel. The vast majority of the characters we meet in the book have already read the contents of Darby's brief, but Grisham decides to leave the reader completely in the dark until the last act. It reeks of convenient plot device : here we have twenty odd characters wandering around with full knowledge of The Brief, and not one of them feels the need to talk about its contents, just so Darby can have her big Narrative Moment several hundred pages into the book. I haven't seen the film, but it doesn't take much thinking to know how Julia Roberts must have played it!
And it's pretty much downhill from there. With the big mystery out of the way, the novel devolves into the usual scenarios. Will the bad guys find Darby ? Will she expose the villains ? Will she survive ? It doesn't take a genius to work it out, and the continual cat-and-mouse chases are fairly standard, been-there-done-that, thriller fare.
The last hundred or so pages of the novel are padded out beyond belief. I kept waiting for something more to happen, and when it didn't, I wondered why Grisham didn't just wrap them up into one small chapter. My only other major complaint is that the 'twist' at the end of the book about who were and were not the bad guys is laughable, and added nothing whatsoever to the story.
If I could sum this book up in one phrase it would be 'ho-hum, where's my next book?' Not dreadful, but not exactly the highlight of my reading career either.
The story centres around a law student, who investigates the assassination of two Supreme Court judges. Her startling brief on the subject only hits too close to home and results for the fight of her life...
"The Pelican Brief" proved to page turner in many parts, but like any good road, had a lot of potholes that made the storyline slow and intolerable.
There is one thing about Grisham which I find admirable in his writing. He begins with several storyline threads that may seem totally unrelated and then like a master artist, weaves them into the mainstream storyline. A good book and an interesting read.
Ah the good old days of Grisham! When he wrote with style but also knew how to keep the pace up so the drama and action blend nicely. Read more
I also enjoyed the faster pace this book had.
great delivery time and condition, couldnt have asked for better
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