Monday, September 04, 2006

The Pelican Brief

Just finished reading this book. The plot was so captivating i simply could not put it down. Read for 4 hours straight before realising i needed a break.

Summary from the internet:
The plot of this one is no different to his normal type of book. Darby Shaw, a second year law student, is dating her law professor Thomas Callahan. Callahan is a supporter of a Supreme Court judge, Abe Rosenberg who is mysteriously murdered on the very same night as a fellow Supreme Court judge, Glenn Jensen. Nothing seems to link the two but everyone seems to think there's a connection. Prompting every law student in the country to start investigating and coming up with theories as to what happened. Of course with her boyfriend being quite fond of Rosenberg, Darby starts to look into it herself. She even goes so far as to write a paper on it, which she shows to Callahan, who is so convinced by it he hands it to a friend of his within the FBI. Then just a week later after a particularly heavy night out Darby refuses to get in the car with a drunk Callahan, deciding to walk home instead. But just minutes later after starting his car Callahan and his car are blown up. Little did Darby realise how accurate her report actually was. Now she has to fight for survival, aided by journalist Gray Grantham who wants exclusive rights to her story. It's a race against time for Darby as the people trying to keep this a secret close in on her. She needs to do something quick.