Got this book for christmas, very interesting book. In his final hours in office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last 6 months hidden away in a federal prison. What no one know's is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure for the CIA. It seems Back man in his ppower broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world's most sophisticated satellite surveillance system. Backman is secretly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, given a new identity and a new home in Italy. CIA will now leak his whereabouts to the Isralis, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Saudisl Then the CIA will do what it does best, sit back and watch. The question is not whether he will survive---It is who will kill him.
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