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  • The Pelican Brief

  • Written by: John Grisham
  • Narrated by: Anthony Heald
  • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (22 ratings)

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The Pelican Brief

Written by: John Grisham
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
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In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a 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 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 news break 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.

©1992 John Grisham (P)1992 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, A Division of Random House Inc.
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The music was really annoying

The book itself and narrator were great, but the background music was really way too dramatic and too annoying to me. I just wanted to enjoy a story quietly. Why on earth they put such a terrible music in it which kinda ruined my mood a little bit

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great book music a bit much

overall great book, but the misic during the scene changes was a bit over dramatic. great performance by narrator.

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Abridged version; bad music

I didn't realize this was the abridged version which made the novel choppy and hard to follow. The sound effects and music were cheesy and made a decent reading performance sound worse. The abridged version turned an excellent novel into a mediocre one.

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