The Brethren: A gripping crime thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of mystery and suspense

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Trumble is a minimum-security federal prison, home to drug dealers, bank robbers and three former judges known as The Brethren.Each day in the law library, The Brethren spend hours fine-tuning their mail scam, and it's starting to pay big.But when their scam goes awry and ensnares the wrong victim - a powerful man on the outside - they're in trouble. Because this man has dangerous friends.Just as the prison failed to protect society from The Brethren, it won't protect them from their victims..._____________________________'A master at the art of deft characterisation and the skilful delivery of hair-raising crescendos' - Irish Independent'John Grisham is the master of legal fiction' - Jodi Picoult'The best thriller writer alive' - Ken Follett'John Grisham has perfected the art of cooking up convincing, fast-paced thrillers' - Telegraph'Grisham is a superb, instinctive storyteller' - The Times'Grisham's storytelling genius reminds us that when it comes to legal drama, the master is in a league of his own.' - Daily Record'Masterful - when Grisham gets in the courtroom he lets rip, drawing scenes so real they're not just alive, they're pulsating' - Mirror'A giant of the thriller genre' - TimeOutJohn Grisham, Sunday Times bestseller, December 2023

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by John Grisham (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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This one is good, very good, as Grisham entwines two distinct and initially separate subplots in a complex web of double deception. The first storyline being of a group of former, now imprisoned judges who are running a blackmail scheme targeting closet gay men; the second is the tale of the cynical manipulation of the American election primaries by the director of CIA to have his chosen candidate, a little known squeaky clean congressman, win the nomination; no spoilers her but more details are available in the Amazon review.Of course you know that at some point these two strands are going to become entwined and half of the suspense comes from waiting for the "how-and-when's-it-going-to-happen" factor and the other half from the "now-it's-happened-how's-Grisham-going-to-resolve-this-with-a-win-win" factor. Sure there are a couple of questionable coincidences and incredulous improbabilities but it's a story, but Grisham's use of a genuinely plausible human error to link the strands is very clever.As ever with Grisham it's well written and the characters, good and bad, are well developed but note though that anyone looking for Grisham's trade-mark legal insider knowledge maybe be disappointed, the blackmailers maybe former judges but that's just a convenient hook rather than an essential element of the story. The real strength of this book lies in the intrigue that Grisham conjures in his storytelling.