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The Brethren

The Brethren

Summary

Trumble is a minimum-security federal prison, home to drug dealers, bank robbers and three former judges known as The Brethren.

Each day in the law library, The Brethren spend hours fine-tuning their mail scam, and it's starting to pay big.

But when their scam goes awry and ensnares the wrong victim - a powerful man on the outside - they're in trouble. Because this man has dangerous friends.

Just as the prison failed to protect society from The Brethren, it won't protect them from their victims...
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'A master at the art of deft characterisation and the skilful delivery of hair-raising crescendos' - Irish Independent

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John Grisham, Sunday Times bestseller, December 2023

About the author

John Grisham

John Grisham is the author of forty works of fiction and one of non-fiction. His works are translated into forty-two languages. He lives in Virginia.
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