Name: The Broker
SKU: 4633363
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Author: John Grisham
ISBN: 9780099457169

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John Grisham

Synopsis "The Broker "

In his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing President grants a controversial last minute pardon to Joel Backman a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows if that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems that Backman in his power broker heyday may have obtained secrets that compromise the world s most sophisticated satellite surveillance system.Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane given a new name a new identity and a new home in Italy. Eventually after he has settled into his new life the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis the Russians the Chinese and the Saudis. Then the CIA will do what it does best sit back and watch. The question is not whether Backman will survive there s no chance of that. The question the CIA needs answered is who will kill him