Name: The Broker
SKU: 7582993
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Author: John Grisham

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Grisham

Publisher

Anchor Books

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

448

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18.8x10.4x3 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN

345532007

ISBN13

9780345532008

Synopsis "The Broker "

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - 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 is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems 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 is no chance of that. The question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill him?

John Grisham

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John Grisham is the author of forty-eight books that have consecutively become number 1 on the US bestseller lists and have been translated into almost fifty languages. His most recent works include The Guardians, The Reckoning, The Whistler, and The Tumor, which is being adapted as a series by HBO. Grisham has won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction twice and has been awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. When he is not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and Centurion Ministries, two organizations dedicated to exonerating wrongly convicted people. Many of his novels explore deeply ingrained issues in the American justice system. John lives on a farm in Virginia.

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