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?

Don't miss John Grisham's new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 01/11/2005
ISBN: 9780385510455
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.48w x 1.22d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2004 pg. 118
Ingram Advance 01/01/2005 pg. 37
Ingram Advance 02/01/2005 pg. 25
Entertainment Weekly 01/14/2005 pg. 91
People Weekly 01/17/2005 pg. 55
New York Times 01/09/2005 pg. 18
Publishers Weekly 01/10/2005 pg. 39
Library Journal 09/01/2004

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 86376 / Broker
Reading Level: 5.9 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 16