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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 that 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's no chance of that. The question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill him?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47239 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-27
• Released on: 2005-11-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

Barry Forshaw in The Independent
...combination of sheer story-telling nous and no-nonsense prose...but it's a cold eye Grisham casts on his country, and its president

Geoffrey Wansell in the Daily Mail
excellent twists...Grisham hasn't lost his touch

The Sun
nail-biting...