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The Pelican Brief
by John Grisham
400 pages1992
White House Chief of StaffCentral Intelligence Agencylaw firmslegal briefsFederal Bureau of Investigation
About This Book
Two Supreme Court Justices are dead, their murders unsolved. But one woman might have found the answer. Darby Shaw is a brilliant New Orleans legal student with a sharp political mind. For her own amusement, she draws up a legal brief showing how the judges might have been murdered for political rea...
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10h 11m
slow reader
180 WPM
7h 20m
average reader
250 WPM
5h 14m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 110,000 wordsπ
15 days at 30 min/day
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