The Camel Club (novel)
 Hardcover edition | |
| Author | David Baldacci |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Camel Club |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
Publication date | October 25, 2005 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print, e-book, audiobook |
| Pages | 816 pp (hardback) |
| ISBN | 978-0-4465-7880-6 |
| Followed by | The Collectors |
The Camel Club is a crime novel by American writer David Baldacci. This is the first book to feature the Camel Club, a small group of Washington, D.C. civilian misfits led by "Oliver Stone", a former CIA trained assassin. The book was initially published on October 25, 2005 by Grand Central Publishing.[1][2]
Plot
After witnessing a shocking murder, the Club is slammed headfirst into a plot that threatens the very security of the nation, full of stunning twists, high-stakes intrigue, and global gamesmanship rocketing to the Oval Office and beyond. It's an event that may well be the catalyst for a long-threatened Armageddon, and all that stands in the way of this apocalypse are these unexpected heroes.
—from Hachette Book Group[3]
Reception
A lukewarm would-be potboiler of uninvolving intrigue about a kooky quartet of conspiracy theorists—one by the name of “Oliver Stone”—who witness the murder of a federal agent. Almost 8,000 Americans have died in attacks on U.S. soil. Rocket-propelled grenades have pierced the White House, there’s been another prison fiasco in Afghanistan, a dozen soldiers are dying every day and the war has opened a new front on the Syrian border. Thus the author’s bleak imagining of the near future. Throughout, Baldacci (Hour Game, 2004, etc.) drops reliable twists, revealing the federal agent murder to be—surprise—a minuscule piece of a much bigger plot involving snipers, nukes, a presidential kidnapping and an even gloomier vision of the future.
References
- ^ "The Camel Club by David Baldacci". amazon.com. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
- ^ "The Camel Club (Camel Club #1) by David Baldacci". goodreads.com. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
- ^ "The Camel Club by David Baldacci". hachettebookgroup.com. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
- ^ "THE CAMEL CLUB by David Baldacci". kirkusreviews.com. May 20, 2010. Retrieved 2015-01-07.