The Brethren

Trumble is a minimum-security federal prison, a "camp," home to the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals--drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, two Wall Street crooks, one doctor, at least five lawyers.

And three former judges who call themselves the Brethren: one from Texas, one from California, and one from Mississippi. They meet each day in the law library, their turf at Trumble, where they write briefs, handle cases for other inmates, practice law without a license, and sometimes dispense jailhouse justice. And they spend hours writing letters. They are fine-tuning a mail scam, and it's starting to really work. The money is pouring in.

Then their little scam goes awry. It ensnares the wrong victim, a powerful man on the outside, a man with dangerous friends, and the Brethren's days of quietly marking time are over.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 02/01/2000
ISBN: 9780385497466
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.55h x 6.39w x 1.20d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/1999 pg. 72
Publishers Weekly 01/31/2000 pg. 84
Beyond the Cover Author Interv 03/01/2000 pg. 10
People Weekly 02/21/2000 pg. 43
Booklist 03/01/2000 pg. 1148
Library Journal 10/01/1999

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 35307 / Brethren
Reading Level: 6.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 17