The Brethren is a legal and political thriller by John Grisham, centered on three disgraced former judges serving time in a minimum-security federal prison in Florida. Calling themselves “the Brethren,” they spend their days in the prison law library handling inmate disputes, reliving their former authority and quietly building a scheme that reaches far beyond the prison walls. At the same time, a presidential campaign is being shaped by powerful interests, and the two worlds begin to move toward one another through secrets, money and manipulation. The novel explores law, corruption, ambition and the abuse of power, drawing its tension from the question of who is really controlling events when justice, politics and private desire become part of the same game.
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Century
Publication year: 2000
Number of pages: 336
Original language: English