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The Brethren by John Grisham
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The Brethren (original 2000; edition 2005)

by John Grisham

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#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.

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too slow... ( )
  Asauer72 | Jul 3, 2023 |
Bleh! This might have been an edgy, controversial book back when it came out, but now it just reads like a seedy dime store novel. It started out as almost two different books but blended together in the lame, predictable way, all the while meandering through uninteresting plot “twists” and turns. It took way too long to get to the conclusion and when it did I wasn’t glad I read it, I was just glad that it was over. ( )
  MrMet | Apr 28, 2023 |
Aaron Lake never thought about becoming President. He is a Congressman and happy to stay with his life. But Teddy of the CIA sees problems in the future and thinks Aaron can be the one to lead the country through it. All Teddy has to do is buy an election and stop the blackmailing judges…… ( )
  bgknighton | May 10, 2022 |
Quick, entertaining read. Grisham has a style that accelerates you from one page to the next, never really bored with where you're at. That said, the premise of the book and the ending fell a bit flat. There wasn't a whole lot of impactful substance. ( )
  glantzyiii | Feb 4, 2022 |
No real hero in this book. The main characters are men in prison operating a lucrative letter-writing scam, their crooked lawyer, and the strange people who reply to the letters. The con men entrap a powerful man with dangerous friends. ( )
  JoniMFisher | Oct 5, 2021 |
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Only a few megaselling authors of popular fiction deviate dramatically from formula--most notably Stephen King but recently Grisham, too.
 

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Grisham, Johnprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Beck, MichaelNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Berthon, PatrickTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Dobner, TullioTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kuipers, HansTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kuipers, HugoTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kuipers, NienkeTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Lorentzen, PeterTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Lundwall, Sam JTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Menini, Ma. AntoniaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Muller, FrankNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Rodrigues, Aulyde SoaresTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
van Gunsteren, DirkTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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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.

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