Score : B-

Author: John Grisham

Genre: Thriller, Fiction

Joel Blackman once was an uncontested player in the Washington power game. He was adequately dubbed the "broker", as he could market anything, from the corporation seeking a federal earmark, to the arms dealer trying to sell his stock in the slums of the earth. Everything seemed to go swimmingly well in his world until the day he became victim to the very thing that brought him prosperity throughout his years in Washington: greed.