The Camel Club (novel)

The Camel Club

Hardcover edition
Author	David Baldacci
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Camel Club
Genre	Crime novel
Publisher	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date	October 25, 2005
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.

—Review by Kirkus^[4]

References

External links

• Official website