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The chase is a plot that Grisham does best, an unevenly-matched protagonist fighting to outmaneuver the vast resources of power as professional spies organize to be the first on the scene to take Backman out.Because Patrick Lanigan, the most reviled white-collar criminal of his time, knows something that no one else in the world knows. When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. As I said I did like as a character and simply couldn't see how he could survive the situation he was in. However, his life falls apart when a deal collapses involving a hacked spy satellite that nobody knows about, and Backman ends up in jail.

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Six years before, when Backman brokered a satellite network deal that got him into trouble with the federal government, he made some powerful enemies, all engaged in a never-ending technology race, looking for an edge. Cullen Post travels the country fighting wrongful convictions and taking on clients forgotten by the system. He is released from prison, but now, he must live in Italy with a new name and a new identity , while CIA is protecting him(? Bargains are made, and after an outgoing disgraced president grants him a full pardon at the behest of the CIA, he finds himself spirited out of the prison in the middle of the night, bundled onto a military plane, and flown to Italy to begin a new life.

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. Completely gripping, frequently moving and always entertaining, Ford County brims with the same page-turning quality and heart-stopping drama of his previous bestsellers. When the current Presidents term was just about over he gave, much to Joel’s delight and surprise, a pardon for past wrong doings. The novel follows the story of Joel Backman, a newly pardoned prisoner who had tried to broker a deal to sell the world's most powerful satellite surveillance system to the highest bidder.