Much Better Than The Camel Club But Not As Good As The Collectors

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	• Stone Cold David Baldacci Grand Central Publishing, 2007 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 139 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Washington Thriller

Great story with a continuing cast of charachters from the Camel Club. The story was fast paced, well told and overall I highly recommend it.

Baldacci Keeps Getting Better

Baldacci is becoming one of my favorite authors and this entry in his Camel Club series helps to confirm why. His ideas are fresh and move the novel along. Characters are well drawn and in each book one learns a little more about the past of John Carr.
In all a satisfying read.

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Exceptional Read

I rarely write an opinion on a book, but this one is so great that I need to share my intense feelings about it.
This is such a wonderful, fast paced, intertwining plot that it was difficult to put it down. I highly recommend to anyone that likes intrique, governmental or historical stories.

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Much Better Than The Camel Club But Not As Good As The Collectors

First off, I will say that I did not enjoy "The Camel Club" one bit. It almost turned me off from the series until a friend (who also hated the Camel Club) recommended "The Collectors." And I really, really enjoyed "The Collectors", especially the con artist aspects and how it came together with Oliver's story so nicely. With "Stone Cold," it is a much better book than "The Camel Club," but doesn't quite measure up with "The Collectors." I enjoyed having Annabelle back and getting more of her backstory and it was fun to see a darker side of Oliver Stone. Was the plot believable?...well, not really, but believable enough to not close the book. Recommended if you liked "The Collectors," but make sure you read that book first (and I guess read "The Camel Club" as well for more insight on the characters).

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The beast made by bureaucrats

I keep thinking of more and more cliches to attach to the Camel Club. You know, how it keeps going, kicks sideways, has one hump or two And I see them attached to Baldacci's style and plot. This novel is arranged in a lot of small chapters, bouncing from the interrelated Finn, Stone, Anabelle stories.I could not really discern and pattern to the jumps, but the author sketches quick action and then moves away. This keeps the story from dragging, gets lots of semiralated action introduced which serves as character development. He really does show us what his characters are through their activities outside the main plot line. I think the totality of the novel is a bit less unified than The Collectors - we are a bit more into good old international spying and retaliation and CIA black helicopter construction as a motivating factor than in The Collectors. This kind of diminishes the rather neat mesh of individuals with the plot McGuffin of the songbook which that novel had. I guess I rate it a step down from Collectors but one up from Camel Club and a real improvement over Baldacci's early work. Oh yes, the conclusion leaves us hanging but I suspect we will see an interesting romantic turn in the next issue.

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