01690cam a2200277 4500 264303426 TxAuBib 20151217120000.0 000309s2000||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 00023841 9780385497466 0385497466 (OCoLC)54083777 TxAuBib Grisham, John. The Brethren / [by] John Grisham. New York : Doubleday, 2000. 366 p. ; 25 cm. They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. The third for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong. Or they can use their time in prison to get very rich—very fast. And so they sit, sprawled in the prison library, furiously writing letters, fine-tuning a wickedly brilliant extortion scam—while events outside their prison walls begin to erupt. A bizarre presidential election is holding the nation in its grips, and a powerful government figure is pulling some very hidden strings. For the Brethren, the timing couldn’t be better. Because they’ve just found the perfect victim. 20001020. Prisoners Fiction. Judges Fiction. Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery stories. TXHAM