Amazingly Fresh. Review on Brethren, The - John Grisham

The Brethren,

All I can say after reading this novel is that now I look at the election system of the united states presidency from an entire new perspective. the presidential election is the central point in this whole book that really yanks the carpet from beneath you.

The book starts from a minimum security prison where three ex-jurors and now convicts are now spending their lives for various crimes committed by them. feeling that they have been wronged they decide to utilise their prison time to become very rich quickly. they hatch a scam in which they pin-point down to all the weak but rich and foolish gay men who are still in their closets. the brethren i.e. judge joy roy spicer, judge hatlee beetch and the third judge (whose name I cant recall right now) befriend middle-aged rich gay men by pretending to be a young gay teenager. then when their victim divulges his full details they blackmail him with exposure and extract as much money as they like. the perfect scam.

at the same time a weird presidential election sweeps the whole country where it turns out that the elections for the most powerful office in the world is being rigged to make one candidate win and i.e. Aaron Lake.To the director of the CIA, Lake seems like the perfect candidate for the presidential office with no secrets, no bad habits and no skeletons in the closet. once the wheels of the multi-million dollar campaign have been set in motion there seems to be no looking back for Aaron Lake as he gets sweeped up into a whirlpool of diplomatic manipulations, assassination, ruthless killing of innocent people - all to serve one purpose and that is to make him the President of the United States.

in the meantime the brethren have not been idle....they have been working tirelessly to get their grubby little hands on as many small amounts of money as possible. And then they find the perfect victim...

Read this book for a never-before experience. John Grisham is at his best and different from his usual style of courtroom dramas and he shows that he succeeds here too. A must read for all Grisham fans.