The Broker Audiobook (Free)

In his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing Chief executive grants a complete pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker that has spent the final six years hidden away in a federal prison. It’s a controversial move, but what no-one else knows would be that the presidential pardon comes as a result of enormous pressure through the CIA. They declare that Backman may have obtained secrets that would bargain the world’s most sophisticated satellite surveillance program.

Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a army cargo plane; he is given a fresh name, a fresh identity, and a fresh home in Italy. Eventually, once he provides settled into his new life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts towards the Israelis, the Russians, the Chinese language as well as the Saudis. Then your CIA will do what it can best: relax and watch. The question is not whether Backman will survive – there is no chance of that. The question the CIA desires answered can be: who will kill him?