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The Pelican Brief (John Grishham) |
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John Grisham's head was full of movies when he wrote The Pelican Brief, which is such a brisk page-turner you could use it to dry your hair. He had Julia Roberts in mind for the heroine, Darby Shaw, a brilliant Tulane law student who comes up with an ingenious theory to explain the baffling assassinations of two Supreme Court justices in one day. They were shot and strangled by ace international terrorist Khamel, who loves the film Three Days of the Condor, but government gumshoes don't get what connects the deaths. Silly government guys! They died so the conservative president, who just wants to be left alone to play golf, will appoint new, conservative justices who will help out a case involving an industrialist who is the enemy of pelicans and other living things. It's all spelled out for them in Darby's brief. She likes to do legal feats to impress her boyfriend, her boyish law prof Thomas (who, like Grisham, prefers to shave at most once a week, and is cool, smart, and antiauthoritarian). The prof likes to paint her toes red, in homage to Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham. |
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Drunk, he hobbles towards the car. His date is only a few steps behind, yells at him to let her drive. "No!" the drunk man screams. "I won't get in the car with you!" she screams, tears streaming down her face. "Have fun walking home!" he shouts. "Your drunk!" she screams. "I can drive better drunk than you can sober!" he hollers back. He reaches the car, she pleads with him one last time to let her drive. He refuses. As he gets into the car, it explodes. The girl is fazed, who would do this? She decides that the bomb must have also been meant for her. Her date, Thomas Callahan and her constitutional law professor, never did anything to upset people to the point that they would kill him. She, Darby Shaw, had written a brief about why she thinks that two Supreme Court justices where murdered. Thomas had said that he had given the brief to his friend in the FBI. Darby goes into hiding, she makes contact with the FBI officer who Thomas gave the brief to. He is murdered the night before they were suppose to meet. Darby continues to hide, as she is being hunted by people who plan to kill her. Finally, she contacts The Washington Post reporter Gray Grisham and with her information they collect enough evidence to make the biggest news break since Watergate. The Pelican Brief by John Grishman is a complex and suspenseful novel which is a little confusing to read. This novel has many, many characters, it makes hard to keep track of the story line. There is a lot of characters that have no purpose or very small purposes, one is Eric Easton. He was mentioned maybe twice in the whole story. You get so confused that its possible to get K.O. Lewis, a FBI agent, and L. Matthew Barr, the person hired to oversee killing Darby, mixed up. Some characters are rarely mentioned and some seem to spontaneously appear. Readers do not find out what is in the Pelican Brief until you are about two-hundred pages into the story. This causes it to be suspenseful because you do not know why people are killing people. The many deaths also cause it to be suspenseful as well, it adds to the "why" factor. Other than the two Supreme Judges, Rosenburg and Jensen, a FBI agent, Gavin Verheek, is murdered and then the expert murder for hire who killed the last three people named, Khamel, is murdered. When this happens, Darby believes him to be Verheek. After they plan to meet, Verheek is murdered by Khamel. Then Khamel pretends to be Verheek and meets Darby. As they are walking together, Khamel is trying to find a spot to kill Darby then he is shot. Randomly shot, you don't know who shot him, how they recognized him or anything. It becomes very unclear. Another thing that might puzzle readers is that there isn't a clear path between how Darby and Grantham find out their information. It isn't easy to grasp how they get from one informant to another. This book is slightly confusing to read, and is complex and suspenseful. It has lots of characters, Grisham withholds vital information, and has some confusing incidents. Although, it does have a very engrossing plot and I would recommend it only for people who are very avid readers who enjoy complicated mysteries and thrillers |
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