Pelican Brief Summary

John Grisham the Peli sens Brief compact deuce Supreme hook Justices, Rosenberg and Jensen, atomic number 18 murdered. Darby Shaw starts an investigation in different libraries for more or less days and opens a bill about her opening why Rosenberg and Jensen could nourish been killed. She thinks that Victor Mattiece is amenable for the ii terminals because Rosenberg and Jensen prevent him of gaining the oil colour in southeasterly Louisiana and in fact, her theory is completely true. Characters Darby Shaw She is a 24- year- old daughter from Tulane University, New Orleans and the main Character in the novel.She is a good- flavor, precise intelligent woman who has graduated with magna cum laude with a degree in biology and planned to graduate magna cum laude with a degree in jurisprudence and afterwards she wants to defeat chemical companies for polluting the environment. She has an affair with doubting Thomas Callahan, who is her law professor at University. Darby Sha w is the author of the Pelican Brief. Thomas Callahan He is a liberal, bragging(a) law professor, 45 historic period- old and enkindle in much jr. women. Thomas Callahan has good alliances to the FBI because of his old friend Gavin Verheek.He is the first person who stops arouse in the Pelican Brief. Gavin Verheek One of Thomas Callahans best friends from law school, Gavin has dropped out from silence practise to work as a lawyer for the g everyplacenment. He is peculiar(prenominal) counsel of the FBI- Director F. Denton Voyles. He gets the Pelican Brief from Thomas and passes it on to the separate FBI- Agents. senile Grantham He is a journalist with the cap Post. Together with Darby Shaw, Gray is one of the main protagonists in the book. He is a workaholic, loves his job and is of line of reasoning very interested in politics.He lives alone and becomes the protector and friend of Darby Shaw. In the novel, he is kind of a symbol figure of the honourable, real American Abraham Rosenberg and Glenn Jensen They are autodinal Supreme Court Justices who are killed by a professional killer called Khamel in the beginning of the story. Their death causes the whole topic. particularly Rosenberg is a Supreme Court Justice who is hated by lot of people because of his simple ideology Government over business, the individual over government, the environment over everything. Khamel Hes a killer who works for Victor Mattiece and is responsible for the deaths of Abraham Rosenberg, Glenn Jensen, Thomas Callahan and Gavin Verheek. He also tries to kill Darby Shaw because of the Pelican Brief The prexy of the get together States Darby Shaw and Gray Grantham want to prove that the prexy is involved in the Pelican case and that he has influenced the investigation. Fletcher Coal Hes the Chief of Staff and the assistant of the President. The President appreciates his advice and in fact, hes the one who pulls the rope in the backg circular whenever there is a en d to make. F. Denton Voyles Director of the FBI Giminski Director of the CIA Victor Mattiece A tycoon from Lafayette who has drilled for oil in South Louisiana and has found a large pith of oil in 1779 and quickly has started buying this land. Because Mattiece had money, he is a customary man with the politicians and bureaucrats. Then a lawsuit has ordered them to stop the dredging and drilling. The complainant is an environmental organisation called Green Fund that argued that Mattiece would destroy a inherent refuge for waterfowl especially for the Louisiana Brown Pelican.After 30 years of contamination by DDT and other pesticides, the Louisiana Brown Pelican would be eliminated thusly. First Green Fund has lost the trial unless then Judge Rosenberg and Jensen kept the injunction in place. Mattiece starts to fight for the right to get the oil with hundreds of lawyers, he greet that it will take him a farsighted time to kick upstairs the trial but that lots of money and th e President will help him to win it. He is so sure that the President will help him because he has contributed the Presidents campaign with four million two hundred thousand dollars, all trough legal channels.Mattiece is non interested if the way to reach his aim is legal or illegal he even pays killers like Khamel. He hides his illegal activities behind an impenetrable internal ear of limited partnerships and corporate associations. Very expensive law- offices like whiteBlazevich, helps him to win the trials. Randy Garcia alias Curtis D. Morgan He is a source of Gray Grantham who gets killed in the end. However, he is an important character because with his help, Gray is able to verify the Pelican Brief. Summary In the beginning of the story two Supreme Court Justices, Rosenberg andJensen, are murdered. Darby Shaw starts an investigation in different libraries for some days and opens a file about her theory why Rosenberg and Jensen could have been killed. She thinks that Victo r Mattiece is responsible for the two deaths because Rosenberg and Jensen prevent him of gaining the oil in South Louisiana and in fact, her theory is completely true. She calls her dossier, Pelican Brief and show the document to Thomas Callahan. He workforce the brief over to his friend Gavin Verheek (he is special council of the FBI Director).Thats the way the Pelican Brief goes the round through the FBI, the CIA and of course the White House. The president now has to restructure the Court because of Rosenberg and Jensens death. That is Victor Mattieces aim. He knows that the president will chose conservative justices who will suffrage for his plans of gaining the oil. Mattiece also becomes aware of the Pelican Brief and decides to kill everyone who is involved in it to confirm his plans secret. He hires the killer Khamel who also killed the two justices to murder Darby Shaw and Thomas Callahan.One nighttime after they had discovered a bar, Callahan is rather drunk, and on the way home, they start quarrelling because Darby does non want him to drive. He insists on driving and she resists on getting into the car with him. That is her luck because when Callahan starts the engine, the car explodes. Darby is brought to the hospital but she is very suspicious because she knows that Thomas was killed and that his murderers follow her. By now, she is on the run. Darby phones Gray Grantham a reporter of the uppercase Post about whom Callahan spoke often because he regarded him as a good journalist.She films him for a list of the people who have contributed the Presidents campaign common chord years ago. She tells him that she is the author of the Pelican Brief and that someone is behind her but she does not know who. She hopes to influence it out with the help of the list. Gray asks her to meet him but she denies. In the meanwhile, Gray Grantham has another telephone call from a supposed Garcia who tells him that he knows who has murdered Rosenberg and Jen sen and tells him some details, which show him that Darby has told the truth.In the following time, Darby has to change her locations and sort very often but she cannot get rid of her followers. She calls Gavin Verheek and tells him about Callahans death and they decide to meet each other at a golosh place. He describes his look and she asks him to wear special clothes, so that she will know who he is. A bug records this telephone conversation and its again Khamels turn. He excavations Verheek and meets Darby as Gavin in order to kill her too. In the last moment, Khamel gets shot himself.Her secret rescuer is a CIA-Agent how Darby learns in the end. She can run by again and decides to ask Gray Grantham for help. She calls him and they meet each other in a hotel in New York. There she tells him everything she knows and they both start looking for Garcia, who is the only one who can verify Darbys dossier so that Gray can write a story about it and nail Victor Mattiece. They befal l out that Garcias right name is Curtis D. Morgan and he is one of the lawyers of White&Blacevich whose guest is Mattiece.Darby and Gray decide to go to Washington to meet Curtis Morgan. There they find out that Garcia is already dead. Probably Mattieces people murdered him. So they visit Morgans wife to tell her that her husband has not committed suicide and to ask for her help. She gives them a key to a lockbox in the First capital of South Carolina Bank. In the lockbox, they find a video cassette and an envelope with some written document in it which enables them to proof that Darbys theory is correct. Darby and Gray go to the office of the Washington Post where Gray writes his story.After that they drop the bomb and contact Denton Voyles, Mattieces lawyers and the White House. The White House decides to order an investigation to tell everyone what Mattiece has done and denies any connection between Mattiece and the President. FBI Director Voyles helps Darby to leave the country unknown because she feels not unassailable anymore in the U. S. A. In the end, Mattiece and his people have been indicted, the presidents image is bad hurt so that he wont win the re-elections and Darby and Gray are caoutchouc at the island of St. Thomas.