Divine Justice (Camel Club)
by David Baldacci
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Author: David BaldacciEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-09-01
ISBN: 0446544884
Number of pages: 560
Publisher: Vision
Book Reviews of Divine Justice (Camel Club)
Book Review: McLarty's Reading Makes the Book
Summary: 5 Stars
Forgive me for taking an unusual direction with this review.
I occasionally listen to books on my commute, and I find that in that situation thrillers work better than the more serious works of fiction, which demand more of the listener. Since the listener's experience of the book is entirely dependent on the reader's oral interpretation of the material, a good reader is absolutely crucial. Sometimes the reader can be distracting (as when an inappropriate choice of reader is made, like Burt Reynolds reading, in his soft Southern drawl, a Robert Parker Boston-set Spencer novel) or at worst embarrassing (such as a male reader doing a comically high-pitched woman's voice). Occasionally one almost feels embarrassed for the reader, especially when the material is so bad that no reader, no matter how talented, could rescue it.
I should hasten to note that DIVINE JUSTICE, the latest of the Camel Club series of books by David Baldacci, is not in that category. It's a highly entertaining pot boiler, despite those plot holes that begin to emerge should you actually think about the story too much. DIVINE JUSTICE picks up right from the end of STONE COLD, when former CIA assassin John Carr, a.k.a. Oliver Stone, has taken flight after his assassination of two loathsome political figures. Carr is pursued by his former employer into the Virginia hills, where he gets embroiled in investigating a small town's nightmarish crimes. Will a rogue element in the CIA kill him? Or will the town's well protected criminal faction get him first? Or will Carr's motley crew of friends from the Camel Club manage to save him from both?
The plot might be a bit slow compared to Baldacci's earlier Camel Club outings. Here the story is split between the CIA's cat-and-mouse chase and the tale of the town's skeletons-in-the-closet, neither of which moves with much drive until well into the book. That's why I recommend the audio version. Ron McLarty's an amazing reader: he manages to convey the sounds and moods of many different speakers with a slight change in his voice--and he does not do caricatures of women by speaking in a falsetto! He's a virtuoso of an oral interpreter--so good, in fact, that I will seek out similar books by his name as reader rather than looking by author. DIVINE JUSTICE is well worth listening to, but especially because of the skill of its reader.
Summary of Divine Justice (Camel Club)
Following the instant #1 New York Times bestseller Stone Cold,Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in David Baldacci's most astonishing thriller yet.
DIVINE JUSTICE
Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who destroyed Stone's life and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced.
But his freedom comes at a steep price: The assassinations he carried out prompt the highest levels of the U. S. government to unleash a massive manhunt. Yet behind the scenes, master spy Macklin Hayes is playing a very personal game of cat and mouse. He, more than anyone else, wants John Carr dead. With their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club risk everything to save him. Now as the hunters close in, Stone's flight from the demons of his past will take him from the power corridors of Washington, D.C., to the coal-mining town of Divine, Virginia-and into a world every bit as bloody and lethal as the one he left behind.
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