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The Brethren
Taschenbuch von John Grisham
Sprache: Englisch
Originalsprache: Englisch

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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...
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...
Über den 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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Genre: Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Übersetzungstitel: Die Bruderschaft
Inhalt: 440 S.
ISBN-13: 9780440236672
ISBN-10: 0440236673
Sprache: Englisch
Originalsprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Grisham, John
Auflage: Internationale Ausgabe (US)
Hersteller: Random House LLC US
Anchor Books
Maße: 176 x 109 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: John Grisham
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.12.2000
Gewicht: 0,229 kg
Artikel-ID: 105752245
Über den 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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Genre: Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Übersetzungstitel: Die Bruderschaft
Inhalt: 440 S.
ISBN-13: 9780440236672
ISBN-10: 0440236673
Sprache: Englisch
Originalsprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Grisham, John
Auflage: Internationale Ausgabe (US)
Hersteller: Random House LLC US
Anchor Books
Maße: 176 x 109 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: John Grisham
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.12.2000
Gewicht: 0,229 kg
Artikel-ID: 105752245
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