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  • Hardcover: 366 pages
  • Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (February 1, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0385497466
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385497466
  • Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.2 x 9.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1,342 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsThey are never the same...
By R. Watkins on January 31, 2000
Format: Hardcover
With the majority of mass market autors, you are guaranteed the same kind of read over and over. Not grisham. The Brethren focuses on a little clan of judges in a low security prison setting up a get rich quick scheme that will guarantee they are set up for good after jail. They lure the men in through placing ads in gay magazine and then track down the men who reply. This leads to the perfect extortion scheme because these men don't want to be found. They make a mistake with one of the men and it just gets better. if you like Grisham, you'll love the Brethren. Not his best, but great anyway, you won't be disappointed.
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4.0 out of 5 starsAnother solid Grisham book
By Durand Sinclair on February 6, 2000
Format: Hardcover
Firstly, this book is written by John Grisham, which means that you get the usual well-written book, so that once you start it, you don't put it down till you finish. (At least, that's what happened to me. I read it in a weekend.) What makes this one different is that there aren't really any good guys. It's the story of how some crooked judges are able to run a scam from inside a jail, paralleled with how a completely evil general tries to buy an election and start a war. The scam itself is really the hero of the story. I often caught myself thinking "Isn't that clever?". Also, Grisham shows his usual cynicism of lawyers with a funny character called Trevor. (Here's betting Steve Buscemi will play him in the movie!) Other reviewers have commented that the plot could have done with some more twists. But I didn't mind the way the plot developed. I found it more believable than The Firm, (whose main character seemed a bit too superhuman), but not quite as intriguing as The Runaway Jury (which is my favourite). All in all, it's a good solid Grisham book that will be well worth the price when it comes out in paperback.
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1.0 out of 5 starsExtremely disappointing
By Courtney_Carpenter@vfc.com on February 18, 2000
Format: Hardcover
I absolutely love John Grisham. However, after this book, I think he needs to take a little time off and think about his writing. His first 3 books were incredible. Then, they got a little less exciting. I thought he was going to have a resurgence with The Testament, a book not many liked, but I thought really extended him as a writer. Then, this one. I thought this book was very uneventful. I kept expecting the usual Grisham suspense, drama, murder, etc. It never came. There was no suspense at all. It could have been a biography of the 3 judges. That's was it read like. Very disappointing!
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3.0 out of 5 starsFrank Muller Wins This Case!
By Staci L. Wilson on June 20, 2000
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You might call this a legal brief - a bit less involved than most Grisham fare, but a fun way to pass the time nonetheless. Or *do* the time... The brethren consists of three imprisoned ex-judges in a white-collar institution who concoct an intricate blackmail scheme that preys on wealthy, closeted gay men. Posing as "Ricky," a young, lonely homosexual in rehab, the judges turn out not to be such great judges of character when they end up penpalling with the wrong man.
Then there's breezy Congressman Aaron Lake, a political puppet shucking and jiving to the tune of CIA Director, Teddy Maynard. Maynard is grooming Lake for the presidency - once housed at 1600 Pennsylvania, Lake will sit back and let Maynard's CIA run the country. Lake seems perfect: he is relatively young, handsome, well-spoken, is malleable and squeaky clean. Or is he?
You see where this is going... so did I, but it was a lot of fun listening to the seemingly unconnected plotlines, trying to guess when the two worlds would collide. This book is deliciously fraught with mud-slinging presidential campaign ads, international intrigue, dirty lawyers on the take, suicide and murder, false love letters, and money... lots and lots of money. Unlike some of Grisham's heavier, more message-laden books (A Time To Kill, or The Rainmaker) The Brethren is written just to entertain.
The reader, Frank Muller, does an excellent job. He expertly handles playing several characters without overdoing it; you can tell the difference between the speakers without being distracted by a showboating acting performance. Muller is the winner of several awards for his audio book performances, and it's easy to tell why with this reading.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsJust kinda drifts off...
By Richard B. White on February 16, 2000
Format: Hardcover
Great premise and could have been an extraordinary story, but it appears that Grisham forgot to flesh it out past a Hollywood treatment. Reading the last few pages, I was on edge waiting for the EXPLOSIVE finale. Didn't happen. I think that he was already into his next big, blockbuster, chart-busting, top o'the list bestseller and just shoved this one to the side...
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2.0 out of 5 starsThe most unappealing Grisham book ever
By Mr. Joe TOP 1000 REVIEWER on April 1, 2001
Format: Mass Market Paperback
When I was a young lad in high school English Lit, I seem to recall being taught that one of the elements of any novel was a protagonist-antagonist conflict. You know, Square-Jawed Good Guy vs. Despicable Bad Guy - that sort of thing. Grisham's THE BRETHREN is the first novel I can remember reading in a very long time, if ever, that has no protagonist. Maybe he's now trying to write about real life where there're more gray areas.
Joe Roy Spicer, Hatlee Beech and FinnYarber are, respectively, a former Mississippi Justice of the Peace, a former Texas federal judge, and a former California Supreme Court Chief Justice. All three are in a minimum security Federal pen in Florida for various peccadilloes. And all three are using the US mail system to blackmail middle-aged homosexual men they've enticed out of the closet with a phony advert in a gay magazine. Helping them is their sleazy lawyer, Trevor Carson, who, for a cut of the take, acts as their link to the Postal Service.
On a seemingly unrelated track, Teddy Maynard is the unscrupulous, crippled Director of the CIA who has decided that the US needs a stronger military. To achieve this, he proposes to a relatively unknown Arizona Congressman, Aaron Lake, that he, Lake, enter the recently begun presidential primaries on a Double-the-Defense Budget platform. Aaron, a shameless political opportunist, is malleable and accepts, the task made easier by the tens of millions of dollars that Teddy manipulates into his campaign coffers. One of the main reasons that Maynard has selected Lake is the latter's apparent freedom from human foibles. Aaron apparently has no skeletons in his closet.
The reader knows all this thirty pages into the book, and unless he/she hasn't been paying attention, can predict where the plot is going.Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsI think I have read this twice

Another good one from Grisham easy flowing style I could not put the book down
Now need to read another of the early titles

Published 10 days ago by J. M. Cooper
5.0 out of 5 starsGrisham Scores Again

John Grisham has the ability to take an unbelievable premise and create a totally believable story. Fun reading.

Published 11 days ago by Thomas M Cooper DDS
5.0 out of 5 starsDifferent

Very good yarn, much different from John's other books. Kept me reading till the end. Ending surprised me it was not expected.

Published 13 days ago by Thomas
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

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Published 25 days ago by Paul Fitzpatrick
5.0 out of 5 starsGood Read for a Mystery

It was very interesting. You just need to stay with it as there is so much going in in different areas, it is hard to remember who is who if you don't stay with the reading.

Published 25 days ago by A. Hirt
5.0 out of 5 starsa testimony to the nature of man

very interesting considering the nature of the Supreme Court today.

Published 25 days ago by Robert F. Lewis
4.0 out of 5 starsJohn Grisham is not a great writer, but he sure is a genius

John Grisham is not a great writer, but he sure is a genius. This novel, written in 2000, is so prescient about presidential elections. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Delaware Beaches
1.0 out of 5 starsa disappiontment

Plot moves along with some odd characters but no likable ones.

Published 1 month ago by Big Daddy Z. Top
2.0 out of 5 starsPoor choice by our book club I thought. However I Don t often read...

On tv. This author has a great reputation and I have enjoyed some of his other books. I need to read some reviews from other readers.

Published 1 month ago by dr peg
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Great writing...one of Grisham's best. Storyline is interesting and stimulating with lots of twists. Highly recommend it.

Published 3 months ago by callie

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