The Broker
by John Grisham · first published 2005
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With 14 years left on a 20 year sentence, notorious Washington powerbroker Joel Blackman receives a surprise pardon from a lame duck President. Smuggled out of the country, he is given a new identity and tucked away in a small town in Italy.
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This scenario is the background of an amusing John Grisham novel from 2005, The Broker, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broker As a novel it was okay, it would probably make a terrific movie, perhaps as comedy.
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