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  • The Brethren

  • Written by: John Grisham
  • Narrated by: Frank Muller
  • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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The Brethren

Written by: John Grisham
Narrated by: Frank Muller
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They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison.

One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. And the third, for a career-ending drunken joyride.

Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong.

Or they can use their time in prison to get very rich --very fast. And so they sit, sprawled in the prison library, furiously writing letters, fine-tuning a wickedly brilliant extortion scam ... while events outside their prison walls begin to erupt.

A bizarre presidential election is holding the nation in its grips--and a powerful government figure is pulling some very hidden strings. For the Brethren, the timing couldn't be better. Because they've just found the perfect victim...

Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!

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Crime does pay .. apparently

It’s been quite a few years since I read a Grisham novel. It did not disappoint.

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I read this book before. I enjoyed it a lot. It was interesting to see how an election could go. I do feel that there was some karma that should have taken place.

My biggest problem was the narrator made it sound like everyone was this slimy sneaky character. When I read it there was distinct differences in my head to how they would sound and a distinction between the characters I should be cheering on. I did not get that from his reading of the book.

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Unfortunately I couldn’t get through this book

Have tried a few times to get into this book. I found the narration very difficult to hold my interest. No offence to the narrator, but his voice made me tired. All other John Grisham books I just had to know the ending. In this one, I’ll never know!

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