The Pelican Brief

Like, if, if Trent Grisham or...

I'd rather have John Grisham, like, writing the Pelican Brief at home plate before taking a swing than Trent Grisham, who out of all qualified leadoff hitters by any statistical measure, is the worst one in baseball.

So who did Aaron Boone bat lead off in a game to save the season? You guessed it.

Trent Grisham.

He's sold almost 500 million books around the world.

He has written some of the most iconic and award-winning legal thrillers ever: The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Rainmaker, Runaway Jury, and A Time to Kill.

All 52 of his books have been number one bestsellers.

And I personally cannot wait for John's newest book.

They come out every year.

The big guys come out every year.

Elmore Leonard." [laughs] And I thought, "Okay, I wanna be a big guy." [laughs] So I hustled back to Oxford, Mississippi, where we lived at the time, and wrote around the clock to finish The Pelican Brief, to have it out in time to publish in '92, a year later.

And that's how it all kept going.

Yeah, yeah.

I wanna, I wanna t- So I raced back home and, uh, I finished The Pelican Brief in, uh, just, I mean, I was, I'd been working on it-

Yeah

... uh, slowly.

So Grisham went home and wrote another one.

He called it The Pelican Brief.

And the rest, as they say, is literary and cinematic history.

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