【图书简介】 In his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing President grants a controversial last minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washingtonpower broker who has spent the last six years hidden away ill a federal prison. What no one knows is that tile President issues tile pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from tile CIA. It seems that Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise tile world's most sophisticated satellite surveillance system.Backman is quietly smuggled out of tile 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 ClA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis, the In,ussians, the Chinese and the Saudis. Then the CIA willdo what it does best: sit back and watch. The question is not whether Backman will survive - there's no chance of that. The question the ClAneeds answered is, who will kill him?