A law student in New Orleans writes a legal brief that ends up making her enemies in high places. Movie tie-in. Reprint. NYT. Amazon.com description: Product Description: In suburban Georgetown a killers Reeboks whisper  on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy  D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly  garroted to death... The next day America learns  that two of its Supreme Court justices have been  assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law  student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was  no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant  guess. To the Washington establishment it was  political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a  murder -- a murder intended for her. Going  underground, she finds there is only one person she can  trust -- an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak  hotter than Watergate -- to help her piece together the  deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of  Louisiana and the White Houses inner sanctums, a  violent cover-up is being engineered. For somone has  read Darbys brief. Someone who will stop at  nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable  crime