The Pelican Brief: A gripping crime thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of mystery and suspense

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FBI را مخدوش کرده است. رئیس جمهور، یک جمهوری خواه محافظ کار، احساس میکند که ممکن است یک ارتباط سیاسی در اجرای او بوده که ممکن است به امر انتخاب دوباره او لطمه بزند. و او جواب میخواهد. اما FBI برای ایجاد انگیزه یا رسیدن به لیست معتبری از مضنون ها شکست میخورد. در این حال نیو اورلین، داربی شاو, یک دانش آموز حقوق تولان، زمان قتل ها و مضنون ها را زمان بندی میکند که ممکن است یک توطئه برای جمع کردن دادگاه با محافظ کارها باشد. چه چیزی آشفته میکند، با این وجود اینگونه قتل های دیوان متفاوت بودند. یکی لیبرال دیوان دادگاه نود ساله بود و دیگری دیوان محافظ کار جوان بود.

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I found great pleasure in this book. Grisham wove an outstanding, well researched plot. His characters move forward into the plot with three dimensions shaping with each word and act. I couldn’t put the book down. Grisham blesses me, and gives me what I need, the way S. King does, in the sense of a mini-vacation from reality. The power of this book, for me, came through the characters, and the outstanding dialogue. There seemed to be no rhyme or reason for the assassinations’. The local police, the FBI and the CIA are all involved in the hunt for the killer but are getting nowhere. A master at the art of deft characterisation and the skilful delivery of hair-raising crescendos' – Irish Independent Families can talk about the way that political thrillers dramatize events that could have happened in real life. Conversations on the role of the whistle-blower, and the responsibility of citizens to speak up when they see wrongdoing, might also be sparked by this movie. 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 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.Being in the legal field myself, I always admired his ability to show the negative side of justice and the manipulative hand the politicians have over the justice system. To that end, the Pelican Brief is the best I have read. Grisham is a genius in creating such realistic characters in his books which make us readers so connected with them. His characters have always been felt so close to our hearts and Darby Shaw is no exception. I read this book shortly after watching the movie and was not disappointed. In fact, the film follows the book closely. If you haven’t seen the movie or read it: A Law student writes a report on the killings of two Supreme Court Justices, and when the report gets into the hands of reporters and gets passed along, she nearly dies in the explosion which kills her boyfriend, a law professor. She goes into hiding as killers seek her out, and she chooses who she can and can’t trust. The plot unfolds near the end, explaining the brief, and a rich antagonist with mob-like power, tied to government officials. So, after finishing the novel, I watched the movie again, and, sure enough, the newspaper stuff is there at the end, but it’s overshadowed by the dance the two characters are enacting. That’s particularly interesting because the movie’s director is the same guy who directed All the President’s Men, Pakula.

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The story prominently appears in the Post, over the objections of the president and his staff. One of the implicated lawyers commits suicide. The President is expected to announce he will not seek re-election. Mattiece disappears. Shaw settles on an island in the Caribbean and is joined by Grantham, who agrees to stay for at least a month. Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Language in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started CloseFor anyone who loves newspapers, that’s been a sad development. In small measure, Grisham’s book gives honor to the way it used to be. Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Sex, Romance & Nudity in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close The kind of exciting journalism that is depicted in Grisham’s gripping and well-paced novel and Pakula’s gripping and well-paced All the President’s Men is still practiced by a handful of newspapers. As I was finishing John Grisham’s 1992 gripping legal thriller The Pelican Brief, I found myself warmly enjoying its reminder of how wonderful newspapering used to be. The length of time it took to tell the story was unnecessary - this would have been more effective as a novella with less names.