Stone cold by David Baldacci

Stone cold by David BaldacciBook reviewGenre Fictional thrillerRating 3.5/5This is the third book featuring the Camel Club and there are three more to go so it’s safe to say that the members of the famed club will be there in the next one! Or will there be new ones?Spoilers None!You must read the book The Collectors before this to understand the flow and get to know the characters.Of course you must have finished The first camel club to know The Collectors!David gave a gap between the novels and writes another series (king and Maxwell) in between so it is difficult to get back the story so far at first!Once you start though it all comes back to you!
How a group of four elderly men form a boys club called Camel club and then give membership to others! And how they land up bang in the middle of a soup or the other!I have been reading David Baldacci books in order so that I get a feel of the growth of the author and I don’t like to jump!Like any David novel, the beginning is simply awesome and shocking! The killing and bodies pile up like a traffic jam during the rush hour!
His narration is both slick and funny sometimes!Sometimes the most complex kills are made so effortless while sometimes the simplest ones get complicated!So you have a guy called Harry who works as a man who tries to find security flaws in systems and in places! That part how he gets into the plane is simply awesome!He also routinely kills old CIA agents in innovative fashions on the instructions of her mother!Then you have the Casino owner and who as in the last book was relieved of millions of dollars by Annabelle and now is chasing her like a dog whose bone was snatched by the kitty in the last minute!While the two stories collide due to common characters, the end could have been more dramatic is what I felt!
All what we learnt in the previous novels is digged deeper and more truths are revealed!The most interesting character is of course Oliver Stone aka John Carr and he is an amalgamation of John Wick, Nick Carter and Jason Borne! So he can do no wrong and he can kill like no tomorrow and he cannot be killed or taken prisoner!How the villian of the previous books Simpson and Gray come back to wreck havoc is also shown! Hope they are settled for good now at least!There are two tragic deaths in the end and one of them was very unexpected! It was really shocking for me!…So it is a fast paced thriller with never a dull moment and this is like the third John Wick movie! All fight and not much talk!David regulars will love this!The next novel by David is not a continuation of Camel club apparently! He waited for couple more years to do that!
But I have decided to break my rule of chronology and get the next novel in Camel club aka Divine justice as my next read!Read away Camel club readers!