John Grisham - The Broker

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The Broker

John Grisham

John Grisham The Broker

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A Time to Kill

The Firm The Pelican Brief

The Client

The Chamber

The Rainmaker

The Runaway Jury

The Partner

The Street Lawyer

The Testament

The Brethren

A Painted House

Skipping Christmas

The Summons The King of Torts

Bleachers The Last Juror

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John

Grisham

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Doubleday

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PUBLISHED BY DOUBLED4.Y

a division of Random House Inc

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trademarks of Random House, Inc

ISBN 0 385 51045 4

PRINTED IN THF UNITED STATES OF AM*RIC*

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In the waning hours of a presidency that was destined to

arouse less interest from historians than any since perhaps that of William

Henry Harrison (thirty-one days from inauguration to death), Arthur Morgan

huddled in the Oval Office with his last remaining friend and pondered his

final decisions. At that moment he felt as though he'd botched every decision

in the previous four years, and he was not overly confident that he could,

somehow, so late in the game, get things right. His friend wasn't so sure

either, though, as always, he said little and whatever he did say was what the

President wanted to hear.

They were about pardons-desperate pleas from thieves and embezzlers and

liars, some still in jail and some who'd never served time but who

nonetheless wanted their good names cleared and their beloved rights

restored. All claimed to be friends, or friends of friends, or die-hard

supporters, though only a few had ever gotten the chance to proclaim their

support before that eleventh hour. How sad that after four tumultuous years

of leading the free world it would all fizzle into one miserable pile of

requests from a bunch of crooks. Which thieves should be allowed to steal

again? That was the momentous question facing the President as the hours

crept by.

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The last friend was Critz, an old fraternity pal from their days at Cornell

when Morgan ran the student government while Critz stuffed the ballot

boxes. In the past four years, Critz had served as press secretary, chief of

staff, national security advisor, and even secretary of state, though that

appointment lasted for only three months and was hastily rescinded when

Critz's unique style of diplomacy nearly ignited World War III. Critz's last

appointment had taken place the previous October, in the final frantic weeks

of the reelection onslaught. With the polls showing President Morgan

trailing badly in at least forty states, Critz seized control of the campaign and

managed to alienate the rest of the country, except, arguably, Alaska.

It had been a historic election; never before had an incumbent president

received so few electoral votes. Three to be exact, all from Alaska, the only

state Morgan had not visited, at Critz's advice. Five hundred and thirty-five

for the challenger, three for President Morgan. The word "landslide" did not

even begin to capture the enormity of the shellacking.

Once the votes were counted, the challenger, following bad advice, decided

to contest the results in Alaska. Why not go for all 538 electoral votes? he

reasoned. Never again would a candidate for the presidency have the

opportunity to completely whitewash his opponent, to throw the mother of

all shutouts. For six weeks the President suffered even more while lawsuits

raged in Alaska. When the supreme court there eventually awarded him the

state's three electoral votes, he and Critz had a very quiet bottle of

champagne.

President Morgan had become enamored of Alaska, even though the

certified results gave him a scant seventeen-vote margin.

He should have avoided more states.

He even lost Delaware, his home, where the once-enlightened electorate had

allowed him to serve eight wonderful years as governor. Just as he had never

found the time to visit Alaska, his opponent had totally ignored Delaware-no

organization to speak of, no television ads, not a single campaign stop. And

his opponent still took 52 percent of the vote!

Critz sat in a thick leather chair and held a notepad with a list of a hundred

things that needed to be done immediately. He watched his President move

slowly from one window to the next, peering into the darkness, dreaming of

what might have been. The man was depressed

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