The brethren

by John Grisham

Paper Book, 2000

Status

Available

Call number

Fiction Grisham

Barcode

11516

Publication

New York : Doubleday, 2000.

Description

Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML: #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. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from John Grisham's The Litigators..… (more)

Media reviews

From Publishers Weekly Only a few megaselling authors of popular fiction deviate dramatically from formula--most notably Stephen King but recently Grisham, too.

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Original publication date

2000

Physical description

366 p.; 25 inches

ISBN

9780385497466
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