The Broker

Resumen del libro

Someone is certain to kill Joel Backman. The question is: who?In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a full pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years in a federal prison. Unknown to an outraged public, the pardon was the CIA's idea.

They claim that Backman may have obtained secrets that would compromise American satellite surveillance. Smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, Backman is given a new identity and a new home in Italy. He thinks he's out.

But the CIA will soon leak his whereabouts to the Israelis, the Russians, the Chinese and the Saudis, and then 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?

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B John Grishamx{0026}lt;/B (Jonesboro, Arkansas, 1955) se dedicaba a la abogacía antes de convertirse en un escritor de éxito mundial. Desde que publicó su primera novela en 1988, ha escrito casi una por año. Todas sin excepción han sido best sellers y ocho de ellas han resultado ser una magnífica fuente de guiones para el cine.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Entre sus obras destacan los siguientes títulos, todos ellos convertidos también en películas de éxito: x{0026}lt;I Tiempo de matarx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I La tapaderax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El informePelícanox{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El clientex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Cámara de gasx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Legítima defensax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El juradox{0026}lt;/I . Sus últimas obras publicadas en España son x{0026}lt;I Ajuste de cuentas, La gran estafa, El caso Fitzgerald, El soborno x{0026}lt;/I yx{0026}lt;I Un abogado rebelde.x{0026}lt;/I x{0026}lt;/P