In
his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a
controversial last-minute 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.
Backman
is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, given
a new name, a new identity, and a new home in Italy. Eventually, after
he has settled into his new life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to
the Israelis, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Saudis. Then the CIA
will do what it does best: sit back and watch. The question is not
whether Backman will survive—there is no chance of that. The question
the CIA needs answered is, who will kill him?
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