Divine Justice (Camel Club Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (762 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1600244289 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 10 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. So much for Stone's vaunted ability as a resourceful planner. From Publishers Weekly Near the start of bestseller Baldacci's less than compelling fourth Camel Club thriller (after Stone Cold), former CIA assassin Oliver Stone (aka John Carr) boards a New Orleans–bound train at Washington's Union Station after shooting to death a well-known U.S. senator and the nation's intelligence chief, the two men responsible for his wife's murder. Series fans should be satisfied, but this effort lacks the imagination that distinguished Baldacci's debut, Absolute Power (1996). All rights reserved. (Nov.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. This sudden detour takes Stone to Divine, Va., a mining town where he becomes enmeshed in corruption and intrigue—and falls, in just one of several clichéd situations,
But Stone's freedom has come at a steep price; the assassinations he carried out have prompted the highest levels of the United States Government to unleash a massive manhunt. Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America. Meanwhile, with their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club must fend for themselves, even as they try to protect him. Joe Knox is leading the charge, but his superiors aren't telling him everything there is to know about his quarry-and their hidden agendas are just as dangerous as the killer he's trying to catch. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who hid the truth of Stone's past and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. As Knox closes in, Stone's flight from the demons of his past will take him far from Washington, D.C., to the coal-mining town of Devine, Virginia-and headlong into a confrontation every bit as lethal as the one he is trying to escape.
Good fiction Aletheuo This book was recommended to me by a friend. I don't read a lot of fiction, but I think I'll read some more Baldacci books after having experienced this one. The author is good about moving the story forward in a purposeful way, and he develops the characters well. His sentence structure and vocabulary made his book easy to read, but not so simple as to insult the reader. I read it in two evenings a. Melvin Morse said Sappy, cliched, predictable and satisfying. The villains are vile, the heroes flawed, the women are strong and weepy, and the plot is Sydney Sheldon at his worst. Yet it all works and is deeply satisfying. The end is predictable and just as you wanted it to be. Plus Stone gets a girlfriend, after twenty years of living in a tent, he deserves something good to come his way.. Disappointing Mary B. I really like the set-up for the Camel Club, but this book seemed like a first draft. The plot sagged badly in the middle, then picked up toward the end, but I found myself bothered by the "phoned-in" quality of the writing.I've never warmed up to the Annabelle character (I quit Book 3 in the series mid-way because of her). Don't think I'll be buying any more Camel Club books (if there are any), and