The Brethren

Zusatztext "Gripping ... engaging and fast-paced ... will hook you from the first page and won't let you go."— New York Post "A crackerjack tale."— Entertainment Weekly "Fast-paced and action-packed...you'll be thoroughly entertained."— New Orleans Times-Picayune "The plot is as up-to-date as tomorrow's newspaper! with allusions to presidential polls and debates! campaign financing! money laundering and offshore financial finagling.... Add to these tantalizing ingredients the steady action! with some clever surprises." — The New York Times A Main Selection of the Doubleday Book Club! the Literary Guild! and the Mystery Guild Informationen zum Autor John Grisham is the author of forty-seven consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include The Judge's List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series.   Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.   When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.   John lives on a farm in central Virginia. Klappentext 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. And 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... "First case is Schneiter versus Magruder," Spicer announced as if a major antitrust trial was about to start. "Schneiter's not here," Beech said. "Where is he?" "Infirmary. Gallstones again. I just left there." Hatlee Beech was the third member of the tribunal. He spent most of his time in the infirmary because of hemorrhoids, or headaches, or swollen glands. Beech was fifty-six, the youngest of the three, and with nine years to go he was convinced he would die in prison. He'd been a federal judge in East Texas, a hardfisted conservative who knew lots of Scripture and liked to quote it during trials. He'd had political ambitions, a nice family, money from his wife's family's oil trust. He also had a drinking problem which no one knew about until he ran over two hikers in Yellowstone. Both died. The car Beech had been driving was owned by a young lady he was not married to. She was found naked in the front seat, too drunk to walk. They sent him away for twelve years. Joe Roy Spicer, Finn Yarber, Hatlee Beech. The Inferior Court of North Florida, better known as the Brethren around Trumble, a minimum security federal prison with no fences, no guard towers, no razor wire. If you had to do time, do it the federal way, and do it in a place like Trumble. "Should we default him?" Spicer asked Beech. "No, just continue it until next week." ...

Product details

• Authors: John Grisham
• Publisher: Anchor Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.12.2000
• EAN: 9780440236672
• ISBN: 978-0-440-23667-2
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 175 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Island Paperbacks
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage