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With fourteen years still to serve on a 20‑year sentence, Joel Blackman is an infamous Washington powerbroker. A sudden pardon from a lame‑duck president leads to his extraction from the United States, after which he assumes a new identity and is hidden in a small Italian town.
First publish date: 2005
Genre: Thriller/Political Thriller
Authors: John Grisham
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The Broker by John Grisham

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