The Brethren - 20111102

Another legal thriller by John Grisham. I spent so much time to finish it off because it was not particularly splendid.

Three judges-turn-inmates, called the Brethren, by writing advertisement in gay magazine as bait, tried to hook those rich guys who could not come out. It was called the "Angola scam". They got the biggest prize, a US president candidate. This candidate was cherry-picked by the head of CIA, in order to initiate some sort of third world wars when he was elected. So, CIA picked the rotten cherry, and have to handle the Brethren.

Surprisingly, the Brethren outwitted CIA, got out of the prison as well as rewarded with an enormous amount of money. To make the story more ridiculous, the Brethren lived to the very end, emigrated to Monte Carlo, and started the Europe version "Angola scam". It was a little bit too happy as an ending.

However, I like one thing about the story, is that one of the CIA agents queried the Brethren were rich enough to stop working. The Brethren said they just had to keep themselves busy. Idle is evil.