The broker /
Grisham, John.
The broker / John Grisham. - 1st ed. - New York : Doubleday, 2005. - 357 p. ; 25 cm.
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. 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?
0385510454
2004063530
Americans--Italy--Fiction.
Attempted murder--Fiction.
Ex-convicts--Fiction.
Pardon--Fiction.
Italy--Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Legal stories.
PS3557.R5355 / B76 2005b
813/.54
The broker / John Grisham. - 1st ed. - New York : Doubleday, 2005. - 357 p. ; 25 cm.
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. 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?
0385510454
2004063530
Americans--Italy--Fiction.
Attempted murder--Fiction.
Ex-convicts--Fiction.
Pardon--Fiction.
Italy--Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Legal stories.
PS3557.R5355 / B76 2005b
813/.54