by John Grisham, Robin Waterfield · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140814859
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«The Pelican Brief» is the graded legal thriller by John Grisham, adapted by Robin Waterfield for Penguin Readers (level 5), in paperback.
Two US Supreme Court justices are murdered in Washington. Darby Shaw, a young law student from New Orleans, writes a legal brief with a bold hypothesis pointing to a conspiracy; she soon becomes a target of those who want to silence her. With the help of an ambitious journalist, Darby tries to unravel the plot while fleeing her pursuers.
Abridged edition from the Penguin Readers series, level 5, published by Pearson Education Limited in 1995; 80 pages, in English.
Intended for students of English as a foreign language (ELT/ESL) who want to practice reading with adapted texts.
John Ray Grisham Jr. is an American writer, lawyer, and former politician, known for his best-selling legal thrillers. According to the American Academy of Achievement, Grisham has written 37 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers, and his books have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Along with Tom Clancy and J. K. Rowling, Grisham is one of only three Anglophone authors to have sold two million copies on the first printing.
