They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison.
One was sent up for tax evasion. Another for skimming bingo profits. And the third for a career-ending drunken joyride.
Meeting daily in the prison law library taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases dispense a little jailhouse justice and contemplate where their lives went wrong.
Or they can use their time in prison to get very rich -- very fast. And so they sit sprawled in the prison library furiously writing letters fine-tuning a wickedly brilliant extortion scam ... while events outside their prison walls begin to erupt.
A bizarre presidential election is holding the nation in its grips -- and a powerful government figure is pulling some very hidden strings. For the Brethren the timing couldnt be better. Because theyve just found the perfect victim...
