The Broker
NY: Doubleday, 2005. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. 5.75"x8.5" 306 pgs. Black boards w/gold foil letters to spine. Author photo c Bob Strong. Front jacket figure image and photo by Debra Lill. DJ design by John Fontana. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/tone around edges. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), unmarked. Secure ship w/tracking number. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #520
ISBN: 0385510454
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - 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 S...
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