Stone Cold

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Author : David Baldacci
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780330450980
Number of Pages : 400
Product Group : Book
Publication Date : 2008-07-01
Publisher : Pan Macmillan

ASIN : 0330450980

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Customer Reviews

Pulsates with Fast-Paced, Plot-Driven Power (2007-11-16)

If you liked either The Camel Club or The Collectors, don't miss this book!If you haven't read The Camel Club or The Collectors, read those books before this one.Stone Cold is an exciting and major step forward in the plot development of the Camel Club series as Oliver Stone and Annabelle Conroy deal with deadly challenges and old demons. In Stone Cold, the Camel Club moves from focusing on quirky to being operationally driven by the tools and tradecraft of assassins. The title appears to be an attempt to capture the psychology of the professional assassin, someone who is effective because he brings no emotion to terminating life. In keeping with Mr. Baldacci's ability to define and beautifully develop new characters, you'll be fascinated by the new character, Harry Finn, who tests for terrorist vulnerabilities as a profession, is a loving husband and father, and moonlights in assassinating assassins to settle an old score.The novel has three main story lines: Finn's quest to eliminate old enemies, Annabelle Conroy's efforts to avoid being crushed by Jerry Bagger (the man she conned out of forty million dollars in The Collectors), and Oliver Stone's attempt to stay out of the public eye as someone chooses to expose his old connections to the CIA. I found this worked well for making the story fast-paced and continually surprising because the stories interweave.But ultimately the appeal of this book is that it brings a lot of resolution to past and current conflicts in the series.The only thing I didn't like about the book was that it lacked most of the usual quirkiness of the characters and past plots. Instead, this book is more of a standard spy versus spy, crook versus crook, and government against the bad guys type of story. But it's quite good for what it is. I hope the quirkiness doesn't disappear after this story.After you read this story, think about where you have followed orders . . . orders that you should have questioned. What orders should you be questioning now?

The best yet in the Camel Club series! (2007-11-06)

The eclectic crew of the Camel Club are back in action and better than ever! First, if you have not read the Camel Club or the collectors I highly recommend you do before starting this book. Especially read the Collectors as this is a continuation of a story line from that book. The Stone and the boys' skills are tested as they try to protect Annabella Conroy from the crazy casino owner Jerry Bagger, who Annabella has conned Millions from (see The Collectors). But Stone's attention is soon diverted when old deeds and causes come back to haunt him. Don't want to ruin the surprises but a new deadly Villain is waiting in the wings, and is killing Triple Six members one at a time, is Stone next on the list. This is a gripping, fully loaded thriller, with surprising twists that delivers on all cylinders!

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