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The Brethren

By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Frank Muller
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A classic legal thriller from the master of the genre.

Trumble is a minimum-security federal prison, a 'camp', home to the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals - drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, two Wall Street crooks, one doctor, at least five lawyers. And three former judges who call themselves the Brethren: one from Texas, one from California, and one from Mississippi.

They meet each day in the law library, their turf at Trumble, where they write briefs, handle cases for other inmates, practice law without a license, and sometimes dispense jailhouse justice. And they spend hours writing letters. They are fine-tuning a mail scam, and it's starting to really work. The money is pouring in.

Then their little scam goes awry. It ensnares the wrong victim, a powerful man on the outside, a man with dangerous friends, and the Brethren's days of quietly marking time are over.

©2000 Belfry Holdings, Inc. (P)2000 Random House, LLC Crime Crime Thrillers Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Law Suspense

Critic Reviews

“Gripping … engaging and fast-paced … will hook you from the first page and won’t let you go.” (New York Post)
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Not John’s best. There’s a lot of characters and it gets a bit overwhelming at times. Even the great narrator is a bit monotonous,
A clever author nonetheless.

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