The Camel Club (Camel Club Series #1) Book

Updating just to correct some typos and grammatical problems.


Well....here I go. I can't really recommend this one. You know there are books by Mr. Baldacci that I enjoy greatly. I have noted before that he can be...that's "can be" one of those authors who can get very heavy handed about their political beliefs.

I find that the case here. He pretty much had me feeling he was really (really) mostly interested in making a political point. This is obviously a point to be agreed or disagreed on as I see some reviewers agree with me and others don't. Possibly it depends on how much you agree with him (Baldacci) and therefore how much that part of the book...sticks out or overwhelms the plot and characters. I don't know. You'll have to decide for yourself.

Now that said, this is not the primary problem with the novel for me and it's not why I give it a low rating. The novel starts out with an idea and a cast of characters we are to get to know. The primary protagonist is Oliver Stone. No not the movie maker. We have another refugee from the world of secret, black ops, covert...stuff. His having taken the name of the movie maker who's interest in conspiracies is sort of legend may just have been part of the reason why the name was chosen as our hero's nom de plume. Sadly however from the very first things spin out in several directions and the story gets not so much laid out with lots of threads...as it seems to fray out in all directions with the threads lashing about in the wind.

It wasn't that I couldn't keep track...I just came to the point where I didn't care to.

So, I don't plan to follow up with any more of the series and really can't recommend it. I just found myself too often losing interest and wanting to move on to something...interesting.

Oh and as I and others have said, Mr. Baldacci's politics quickly become the only true point.