Book review
Fictional thriller genre
Rating 4/5
Series Camel club number four
Spoilers Anyone who hasn’t read the first three camel club series can stop right here! The story moves forward from Stone cold and there are spoilers of the previous book…
So Milton is dead and Oliver in the rage mode has killed the senior director Gray of CIA and Simpson, a senator! Although they deserve it, it is still a homicide and this one is how he escapes the long hands of the law or CIA!
The fact that he had killed ten odd agents in close combat feels like a smaller issue I guess!
Oliver for all the training of staying away from notification and prominence does little in those lines!
He is always in the news and always gets attention drawn to him!
And when someone asks for ID he behaves suspect! So pardon me if it doesn’t look convincing!
Many recent movies are in similar theme like John Wick or Equaliser or Jack Reacher where a man with shady past is in his retirement period and then something gets him out of the dormant phase to the full blown volcanic eruption!
David’s narration is simple and fast paced with interspersed humor and shocks here and there!
In the first two Camel club, the group were in the wrong place in the wrong time! And they had to make things right! In the third and this one, they are the centre of the problem and solution!
Oliver runs to a simple village with a disturbed boy which was reminiscent of his Wish you well novel but then even this simple town is not so simple as we get to know! He gets into the murky drug and coal business of the town and gets sucked in!
Then you have a tracker who tries to catch him earnestly first and then reluctance creeps in as he questions his life choices and his superior who happens to be the chief villain!
Close on the tracker is the Camel club remaining members lead by Annabelle (not the ghost doll but equally scary!) And they close in on the mystery in their own quirky ways!
Helping the Camel Club in the confused secret service agent Alex ( I feel Alex is now the epitome of a confused guy! Alex in grays anatomy is confused and Alex cross in cross series by James Patterson is confused!!)
Just when the mystery reaches a cross roads of sorts, you have a jail scene similar to the simple Genius novel where you are shown what torture is and this is the time when we realise that any big institution like he jail or CIA can be manipulated by the whims and fancy of one ego maniacal tyrant!
With so many characters there is bound to be some deaths and in David Baldacci novels they are so common like the fruit flies on an old banana!
Of course in the end there is some justice and calm which is a relief since the last camel club novel did leave things hanging so to speak!
Till the last camel club, Hell’s Corner which was written three years later! So of course that’s my next read!
In between that David has written three more novels including a king and Maxwell series!
David, please finish one series and then do next! Can’t expect us to remember everything in the previous one if read long back right!?
At least in this one though there was some divine justice!!
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