Book description
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 hidden away in a federal prison. It's a
controversial move, but what no one else knows is that the
presidential pardon comes as a result of enormous pressure from the
CIA. They claim that Backman may have obtained secrets that would
compromise the world's most sophisticated satellite surveillance
system.
Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo
plane; he is given a new name, a new identity, and a new home in
Italy. Eventually, once 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?
John Grisham
is the author of twenty-two novels, one work of non-fiction, a
collection of short stories, and a novel for young readers. He is on the
Board of Directors for the Innocence Project in New York and is the
Chairman on the Board of Directors for the Mississippi Innocence Project
at the Mississippi School of Law. He lives in Virginia and Mississippi.
His website is www. johngrisham. co. uk
