Audio Book Description:
In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to JoelBackman, a notorious Washington powerbroker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What noone knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormouspressure from the CIA. It seemsBackman,in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world`smost sophisticated satellitesurveillance system. Backman is quetly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, given anew name, a new identity, and anew home in Italy. Eventually, after he has settled into his new life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Isrealis, the Russians, the Chinese, andthe Saudis. Then the CIA will do what itdoes best: sit back andwatch. The questions is not whether Backman will survive- there is no chance of that.The question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill him?
