Wildly Implausable - Mildly Entertaining

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	• Stone Cold David Baldacci Grand Central Publishing, 2007 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 133 reviews view larger image
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Wildly Implausable - Mildly Entertaining

The Camel Club has become a recurring theme with this writer and while this book ties together some loose ends as to the identity and the past of "Oliver Stone" it does it in a fast paced and sometimes wildly implausabile yarn.

Baldacci has picked up the John Patterson habit of the "short chapter." It didn't start in this book, but I would say he is begining to really get the hang of it. Ninety Nine chapters in a three hundred eighty seven page book gives you a lot of scene changes. All the loose ends from the other Camel Club novels are tied up.Some quite conveniently, some painfully but quite thoroughly.

I note that many reviewers here have liked the book to the tune of five stars. I find it easily lacking what I believe that standard to be. My biggest problem was the way in which he resolved all of the issues. To my mind it required what Coleridge once termed, "a willing suspension of disbelief."

The Camel Club - RIP.

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This is the third of David Baldacci's books to feature the Camel Club. The books are best read in order because each book builds on earlier events and further develops characters already introduced.

This time around, the Camel Club (Oliver Stone, Milton Farb, Reuben Rhodes and Caleb Shaw) are fighting on two fronts. Casino king Jerry Bagger is hunting Annabelle Conroy, an honorary member of the Club, who conned him out of millions. At the same time, Stone himself is under direct threat. Ghosts from Stone's mysterious past seem to be surfacing, and some significant people are being murdered. We know early on who is doing the murdering, but understanding why (and who will be next) adds a whole dimension to the story.

There's plenty of action in this novel with some interesting twists and turns. I think this is the best of Mr Baldacci's novels I have read so far, and I'll certainly be looking forward to the next.

Jennifer Cameron-Smith

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My First Baldacci Book

This is the first book I've read from David Baldacci, but I'm planning to read more of his stories. This was a fun read. All the characters have flaws, but some of them are trying to take steps to fix previous mistakes they've made in life.

I admit that I don't have a lot of knowledge into the tactics of the CIA, and other secret operation groups within the government, so I don't know how realistic all of this is. With that being said, I found it interesting and very easy to follow.

I had a very hard time putting down this book. I'm certainly going to read the Camel Club (the first book in this series). I'm hoping that book is as good as this one.

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Best of the Best of the Camel Club

Stone Cold is truly one of the best of the Camel Club series. We definitely want more! Even though I know I am reading fiction, so much of what is in the books are probably very real-to-life. So sad that our government seems so polluted at times--yet Baldacci leaves me feeling that there is always HOPE for tomorrow.

Stone Cold

Latest episode of the Camel Club was, again, a great mystery from David Baldacci. One only hopes that with the ending, the Camel Club will recover and be back for more in the future.

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