The Pelican Brief
- 371 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Two Supreme Court Justices are dead. The murders are connected in one mind, and in one legal brief conceived by that mind...; This title is also available as a filmlable as a film___
Two Supreme Court Justices are dead. The murders are connected in one mind, and in one legal brief conceived by that mind...; This title is also available as a filmlable as a film___
Mark Sway is 11 and knows where a body has been hidden. If the FBI can find the body, then they can prove that it was a Mafia murder, but Mark is too scared to tell the truth, so he hires a lawyer who must protect him both from the law and from the killers.
Jake Brigance has never met Seth Hubbard, or even heard of him, until the old man's suicide note naes him attorney for his estate. The will is dynamite. Seth has left ninety percent of his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid. The vultures are circling even before the body is cold: the only thing more incendiary than money in Ford County is race, and this case has both. As the relatives contest thewill, Jake searches for answers to the many questions left by Seth Hubbard's death ...
Presents a novel about high school football in a small Texas town, a place in which football has become a religion.