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  • I always have to pick up the latest Grisham novel, however, I didn't feel this one was as good as his previous ones. I liked the setting of Italy, but it just didn't grab me and make me want read all the time like his others have done. I read it fairly quickly because I knew I had return it to the l ... Continue

    I always have to pick up the latest Grisham novel, however, I didn't feel this one was as good as his previous ones. I liked the setting of Italy, but it just didn't grab me and make me want read all the time like his others have done. I read it fairly quickly because I knew I had return it to the library.

    

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• ― SheReads said on Mar 5, 2007 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • I didn't expect it to be, but this became one of my favorite books by Grisham. It could have been that I've been dumped in a foreign country and expected to learn a second language much like the main character of this story. Grisham does a great job of describing the experience and gives you a nic ... Continue

    I didn't expect it to be, but this became one of my favorite books by Grisham. It could have been that I've been dumped in a foreign country and expected to learn a second language much like the main character of this story. Grisham does a great job of describing the experience and gives you a nice tour of Italy in the process. Its always nice when Grisham changes things up and leaves the courtroom as well.

    

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• ― Rice Cooker said on Dec 3, 2007 about the Audio CD edition| Add your feedback

In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world’s most sophisticated satellite surveillance system.

Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, given a new name, a new identity, and a new home in Italy. Eventually, after he has settled into his new life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Saudis. Then the CIA will do what it does best: sit back and watch. The question is not whether Backman will survive—there is no chance of that. The question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill him?

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