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(2006)Another very good thriller involving the Camel Club. This is a good series. PW: In bestseller Baldacci's entertaining if overly long sequel to The Camel Club (2005), renegade CIA agent Roger Seagraves has set himself up in the business of freelance assassination and selling our country's secrets to the highest bidder. The Camel Club, a group of four dysfunctional crime solvers headed by ex-CIA assassin Caleb Shaw, becomes involved with Seagraves through a killing at the Library of Congress, where one of the club members works. Meanwhile, an enigmatic young woman, Annabelle Conroy, is assembling a team to engineer a "long con," a $33 million scam targeting Jerry Bagger, the sleazy owner of an Atlantic City casino. This time around, Baldacci wisely tones down the wackiness of the club members, focusing instead on bringing Seagraves to justice while Annabelle works her ingenious scam. The splicing of the two plots is problematic, but Baldacci sacrifices a bit of believability to cobble together a new cast of characters destined to continue fighting the forces of evil in the next installment. Not a ton of depth to this and a really high body count before it was over, but the fact that Baldacci writes with his tongue firmly planted in his cheek and has given us a wonderful (if implausible) group of characters that is a joy to read adds an extra star for me. Suspend your disbelief and go along for the ride! FROM AMAZON: The US Speaker of the House is assassinated in a terrifyingly precise execution in the heart of Washington, DC. In a quieter corner of the nation's capital, the rare book room of the Library of Congress, a reclusive, wealthy scholar drops dead under mysterious circumstances that leave no clues. Following on the heels of the natural death of the Speaker of the House, the city and the nation begin to tremble. In California, a beautiful but capable woman is planning and executing one of the most brilliant cons on record. All the while, "Oliver Stone" and his quirky Camel Club stand by and observe as the genius of their collective perspective begins to connect the dots between these seemingly disparate events - and they realize they must act, and act quickly, before their country falls victim to a silent yet bloody coup. The Collectors is a book that has several different stories in it. The stories collide in the end and even let the reader hanging to wait for the publication of the next book. Solving one of the stories was a person who the reader would not have guessed did it. The title of the book definitely describes some of the characters in the story and the lengths that they will go to add to their collections. Three stars were awarded to this book. no reviews | add a review
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