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In his final hours in office, the outgoing President granta a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six months hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seens Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that conpromise the world's most sophisticated satellite surveillance system.
Backman is quietly smuggled out of the county in a military cargo plane, given a new name, a new idenity, and a new home in Italy. Eventually, after he has settled into his niew life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Iraelies, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Saudis. Then the CIA will do what it does best: sit back and watch. The question is not whether Backman will survive- there is no chance of that. The question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill him?
Backman is quietly smuggled out of the county in a military cargo plane, given a new name, a new idenity, and a new home in Italy. Eventually, after he has settled into his niew life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Iraelies, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Saudis. Then the CIA will do what it does best: sit back and watch. The question is not whether Backman will survive- there is no chance of that. The question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill him?
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