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The Broker Audio Book
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The Broker
Author:
John Grisham
Reader: Michael Beck
Notorious Washington powerbroker Joel Backman, his prison sentence cut short by a lame duck president, is smuggled into Italy via the Witness Protection Program. But Backman has powerful enemies, and maybe he was safer in prison. The question is not whether he will be killed – but who will kill him.
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Available Audio Book Editions:
| N9R647 |
UNABRIDGED |
Audio CDs ( 10 ) |
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Publish Date: 01/11/2005
ISBN: 9780739316474
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| N5R402 |
Abridged |
CDs (5) |
$14.99 |
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| NP4450 |
Abridged |
Playaway (1) |
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Synopsis:
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?
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Book Reviews:
| "The spy-versus-spy intrigue is well constructed and fast-paced." |
| New York Times Book Review - Alan M. Dershowitz (01/09/2005) |
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Author Bio:
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John Grisham woke up at 5:00 every morning for three years to complete his first novel, A TIME TO KILL. Working as a lawyer and a member of Mississippi's state legislature, Grisham published his debut thriller with a small and somewhat unknown publisher, receiving only local readership in his home state. He finally burst on to the national scene with his second novel, THE FIRM, a legal thriller that sold millions of copies and stayed on the New York Times best-seller list for 47 weeks. Shortly afterward, Grisham moved to Oxford, Mississippi, where he began working on a series of new legal thrillers, including THE PELICAN BRIEF and THE CLIENT, all of which became bestsellers and were subsequently made into successful films. Having graduated from Ole Miss with a law degree in 1981, Grisham went on to base his popular thrillers on his experience as a specialist in criminal defense. His once-unknown debut, A TIME TO KILL, was made into a major motion picture in 1996.
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