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Loading... The Brokerby John Grisham
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) ElizabethCromb | Aug 28, 2023 |  Joel Backman, uno de los abogados más poderosos de Washington, es encarcelado en una prisión federal por haber tenido acceso a información militar clasificada relacionada con unos misteriosos satélites de los que nadie conocía la existencia. Seis años más tarde recibe el indulto del Presidente. Lo que no imagina es que detrás de esta decisión se ocultan intereses de la CIA. Con el pretexto de que la información que posee podría ganarle enemigos, el gobierno pone a su disposición un avión militar que le llevará hasta Bolonia, donde Backman tendrá que empezar a vivir bajo una nueva identidad... Al menos en teoría. En realidad, la CIA tiene intención de informar de su paradero a los servicios de inteligencia de Israel, Rusia, China y Arabia Saudí, entre otros. A partir de este momento, ya no se trata de si Backman consigue sobrevivir -esto es imposible- sino de quién le matará... fewbach | Jan 13, 2023 |  ) lynngood2 | Sep 27, 2021 |  ) rsutto22 | Jul 15, 2021 |  ) MustangGuy | Apr 29, 2021 |
 if you're expecting a great legal thriller, pick up an earlier Grisham novel. If you want a great political thriller, there are wonderful ones by Snow, Drury and Patterson. But if you will be satisfied with a workmanlike spy-cum-politics novel, with some first-rate cloak and dagger intrigue, an uplifting vignette of father-son redemption and a poignant pastiche of unrequited love, then "The Broker" is the book for you.  To make a weak plot even weaker, Beckman is utterly unsympathetic.  I had a very good time with The Broker, found Backman believable and charming and interesting, got a few laughs and felt my pulse thumping as the climax approached. But there's a rather hasty aspect to the book: too many short paragraphs, too many unnecessary exclamation points, a rushed and contrived ending. Zippy but uneventful, the book tastes like something Robert Ludlum left sitting on his stove when he died. Readers looking for a non-stop thrill ride won't find it in The Broker. For those ready to relax and settle into an almost sensuous pace, The Broker is benissimo. Is contained inIs abridged inDistinctions
John Grisham, delivers another legal thriller of unparalled suspense. With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not whether he will be killed, but rather who will kill him first. No library descriptions found. |
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