The Brethren - Large Print Author:John Grisham Trumble, a minimum security federal prison, is home to the usual assortment of criminals -- drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, two Wall Street crooks, one doctor, and at least four lawyers. — Trumble is also home to three former judges who call themselves The Brethren: one from Texas, one from California, and one from... more » 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, occasionally dispense jailhouse justice, and spend hours hatching schemes to make money.
Then one of their scams goes awry. It ensnares the wrong victim, an innocent on the outside, a man with dangerous friends, and The Brethren's days of quietly marking time are over.« less