Camel Club by David Baldacci

Camel club by David baldacci…Book reviewFictional thriller genreRating 4/5 for the thrill!Spoilers… No spoilers!It is always a thrill when the novel is about kidnaping the president of a country especially a security conscious one like the US!Add to that you have a bunch of old fools or men who call themselves the Camel club who have so many mysteries in their pasts and you have a thriller! Why camel because apparently Camels are persistent! And here I thought it was elephants!I have always believed in reading the novels written by any author in series how he or she has written them. You can literally see the growth and maturity and word experience with each subsequent novel!So coming to the book, since it is Baldacci you have your regular dose of CIA FBI and other non intelligent acronyms for intelligence agencies and their collaboration and importance and how they are same but different! This is getting repetitive in his novels but I guess it’s the biggest truth…The moment I wrote that statement I could literally hear Jack Nicholson screaming onto my ear that, “you can’t handle the truth!”Well among the four, there is one who is as Mysterious as can be! He knows all the intelligence agecies secrets but lives in a cemetery!The primary story is that these almost bums witnessed a high profile murder while having their regular meet! Now since they are such shady characters it is an understatement that no one will believe them!
So now they have both the murderers and the authorities after them and the only way out of this pickle is that they find the killers before everyone else and why!Then there is the lead investigator Alex who is as confused as they come but having an amazing intelligence ability! Naturally his personal life is gone to the drains though his latest fling gives him the much needed support. His story has been left hanging so maybe it will continue.In the middle of all this quagmire you have some Arabs, Iraqis, Syrians and North Koreans who are present but legally dead!Put in a situation where the prez of US is seconds away from blowing the nuclear bomb and his advisors telling him that it’s necessary and you have a terror thriller!Regular Baldacci will love it since it is racy with never a dull moment while one who is reading for the first time I would suggest to start with his Absolute Power and gradually reach here!Camel club is read worthy…