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...

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 they just found the perfect victim...