El intermediario

During his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing president grants a last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious power broker who has spent the last six years in a federal prison for compromising a satellite surveillance system. Once released, Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country, given a new name, a new identity, and a new home in Italy. Soon, however, the CIA leaks his whereabouts to the Israelis, Russians, Chinese, and Saudis, then sits back and watches who will kill him first.

John Grisham is the author of seventeen novels, including The Brethren, The Client, The Firm, A Painted House, The Partner, The Pelican Brief, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, Skipping Christmas, The Street Lawyer, and A Time to Kill. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.