The Camel Club, by David Baldacci
By Peter on Mar 2, 2008 in Thriller
David Baldacci is a great thriller writer, and writes the best conspiracy thrillers. His plots are interesting and the action is fast.
However, the Camel Club books (three now, and this is the first), differ a lot from his other books. The main reason for this is the Club itself. It consists of four misfits, drawing near to nearing senior citizen status, who form a secret conspiracy watchdog organization. Their ringleader is a person named “Oliver Stone,” a man with a very secret and pretty mysterious past. The way Baldacci writes about the Club and its members is charming, funny, and full of surprises.Â
In this book, while meeting in a park during off-hours, the four members of the club witness the murder of a Secret Service agent, Patrick Johnson. Unfortunately, the killers realize they have witnesses. The Camel Club, on the other hand, decides not to report the murder to the police. Instead, they go on the offensive, trying to discover not only the identity of the killers but also their motivation. So now the game gets going.
The Camel Club, and the followers in this series, is entertaining in the extreme. Not only is the plot great, but the mysterious members of the Camel Club and their strange discussions are highly interesting in their own right too. And, as it turns out, their members are much more resourceful than I believed them to be. So to me, this was a book that both had the qualities of a conspiracy thriller, but that also made me smile and even laugh.
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