"If something isn't aesthetically pleasing or interesting, doesn't require skills I do not have, and makes a stupid point stupidly, I don't appreciate it as art. That doesn't make me a philistine. It makes me a non-rube."

--Jonah Goldberg

Saturday, February 7, 2009

The One with Stone Cold

70. Title & Author: Stone Cold by David Baldacci (527 pages)*
Genre: Fiction--Thriller
Completed: 21 December 2008

Summary & Review: 
Several members of the Camel Club leader Oliver Stones' ex-CIA assassin team are murdered and the casino mogul Jerry Bagger is on honoarary Camel Club member Annabel's tail. With both problems simultaneously coming to a head, how will this ragtag bunch of unlikely heroes survive? (much less solve the mystery behind who is sytematically eliminating the former government agents.)

This is the second book featuring the Camel Club that I have read by Baldacci. Like the first one, The Collectors (#23 on this list), this was a better book than the non-Camel Club Baldacci I read (Simple Genius, #40). It was an entertaining story and the hit man, Harry Finn, was a great character. While at first he seemed like the villian, you were still rooting for him from the beginning rather than hoping he would get caught.

Rating: 7.5
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