Hell’s Corner

Hells corner by David BaldacciBook reviewRating 4/5 only for the ending cause it is a completion of sorts without actually completing it…!Spoilers None but a good spoiler is that the Camel Club is safe! But if you have not read the previous books in the camel club series then you must stop right here and finish them first!The series is like this
The Camel Club: The Camel Club (2005), The Collectors (2006), Stone Cold (2007), Divine Justice (2008), Hell’s Corner (2010)This is the last book of the camel club series and this could very well have been the best if it can gone the Jeffery Deaver way. In Rhyme series, he is always one step ahead of the criminal and that’s what makes him the best detective ever!As soon as the camel club was introduced the most prominent and chief member has been Oliver Stone or John Carr and after the first two ones where others get some importance, the other book are mainly Oliver all the way.This one starts with a redemption of sorts for all the injustice done to Oliver in the hands of the government and senior officials in the CIA. So Oliver is given a task in the true re instatement of his work as an agent and he is supposed to go over seas in a suicide mission of sorts.Just when that could happen, there is a rapid gun fire and a guy runs and falls in a pit which supposedly had a bomb and a big explosion happens just few feet away from the US president and the UK Prime minister.Then the investigators Oliver from US and Mary from MI6 London join hands to decipher the truth.
Anytime though they get close to the clue they are either killed or vanishedA simple planting of a tree in the garden becomes a national security issue. Then you have the added dose of new technology courtesy Nanobots and you are completely lost by now since the bodies are getting piled up like no tomorrow in a typical Baldacci style of course!Except the members of the camel club you can be rest assured that everyone else is in the suspicion radar no matter how big or small he or she is!After a series of failure the partial redemption occurs when the whole team in spite of being out of commission save the president and in the nick of time. Alex gets seriously injured and the whole situation looks grim.In spite of getting to know who is the culprit, Oliver still messes up the chase and for the umpteenth time some members of the camel club are kidnapped and the whole climax is like a James Bond climax where you attack the super villain’s den!Even there things do not go your way or do they?And here come the kicker climax two incidents which pushed my book rating to 4! A fitting climax of this series which was stretching to a point of no return but now it done and dusted!Sayonara Camel club…The next is to finish the King and Maxwell series