The Broker
With 14 years left on a 20 year sentence, notorious Washington powerbroker Joel Blackman receives a surprise pardon from a lame duck President. Smuggled out of the country, he is given a new identity and tucked away in a small town in Italy.
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- In John Grisham’s “The Broker”, one of the characters finds a spy satellite system that isn’t supposed to be in orbit.
The Chinese it’s revealed were the ones who launched it, by creating a large forest fire in China and shrouding the rocket launches into space under it.
- This scenario is the background of an amusing John Grisham novel from 2005, The Broker, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broker
As a novel it was okay, it would probably make a terrific movie, perhaps as comedy.
