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#1 "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. The third for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong. Or they can use their time in prison to get very rich--very fast. And so they sit, sprawled in the prison library, furiously writing letters, fine-tuning a wickedly brilliant extortion scam--while events outside their prison walls begin to erupt. A bizarre presidential election is holding the nation in its grips, and a powerful government figure is pulling some very hidden strings. For the Brethren, the timing couldn't be better. Because they've just found the perfect victim.
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The Brethren, John Grisham
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- Released
- 2000
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- Title
- The Brethren
- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Grisham
- Publisher
- Century
- Released
- 2000
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN10
- 0712680063
- ISBN13
- 9780712680066
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Thriller, Politics, Suspense, USA, LGBTQ+, Criminal thrillers, Homosexuality, Prison, Blackmail, Lawyers, Legal Environment, Court, Court Trials, Political Thrillers, Judges, Elections, Prisoners
- First published
- 2000
- Original title
- The Brethren
- Rating
- 3.45 out of 5
- Description
- #1 "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. The third for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong. Or they can use their time in prison to get very rich--very fast. And so they sit, sprawled in the prison library, furiously writing letters, fine-tuning a wickedly brilliant extortion scam--while events outside their prison walls begin to erupt. A bizarre presidential election is holding the nation in its grips, and a powerful government figure is pulling some very hidden strings. For the Brethren, the timing couldn't be better. Because they've just found the perfect victim.