Stated First Edition hardcover has very light shelfwear and rubbing to covers and DJ. Pages tight, crisp and clean. 355 pages. Hardcover binding. Year: 2005 ISBN: 0385510454 In his final hours in the Oval office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minue pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. it seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world's most sophisticated satellite surveillance system.
