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| Divine Justice | 
 enlarge | Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Macmillan
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 521
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 5.7 x 1.6
ISBN: 0230706061
EAN: 9780230706064
ASIN: 0230706061
Publication Date: October 3, 2008
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 Oliver Stone/John Carr on the Lam November 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you haven't read the earlier books in this series (The Camel Club, The Collectors, and Stone Cold), stop right here. You will like all of those books much more than this one . . . and you will like this one less than you otherwise would if you start with The Camel Club.
So what's it all about? Oliver Stone (John Carr) has just finished assassinating intelligence chieftain Carter Gray and Senator Roger Simpson as repayment for old and recent wrongs (including the death of Milton Farb, Camel Club member). He knows that he must escape quickly and completely . . . and that the Camel Club will be at risk while he runs. Stone's trail is soon picked up by Joe Knox, with more than a little help (and some stonewalling from shadowy Gray protege Macklin Hayes).
Stone has paid more attention to getting revenge than he has to his escape. There's a vague plan to head towards New Orleans and to fade into the post-Katrina construction industry. All those plans are changed when Stone interrupts a beating on a train and is threatened with arrest. Quickly leaving the train with the beating victim, Stone decides to follow the man home to Divine, Virginia. Once there, more violence flares and Stone finds himself drawn into the middle of someone else's fight. Much of the rest of the story alternates between the manhunt and Stone's investigation into what's going on in Divine, Virginia. A lot of the suspense in the book involves decisions that the Camel Club members need to make.
Unlike the earlier books in the series, the story line and the characters aren't nearly as compelling. If you plan to stay with the Camel Club series, you'll need to read this book . . . but I doubt if you will like it nearly as much as the others in the series.
Stone-Hard as Rock November 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Stone is on the run after assassinating 2 CIA heads who had runined his life and killed his wife and daughter (see earlier Camel Club books). His outlaw days take him to small town America, a town called 'Divine', which is anything but Divine. The town has a mine and a prison but Stone enters as towns-folk are getting murdered and he quickly becomes a vigilante to help. At the same time the CIA despatch an agent to capture Stone, but as his chase ensues he learns about Stone's past and realises that there won't be an arrest or trial. As the CIA get closer to Stone, the Camel Club pitch up to help their former leader. A great read, and recommended.
"With two early morning pulls of the trigger..." November 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you haven't already read a David Baldacci book, can't imagine how you missed him. He's penned fifteen bestsellers four of which feature affecting protagonist John Carr also known as Oliver Stone. Once a CIA assassin Stone now battles mightily to right wrongs. Through this character Baldacci has taken readers to Washington, more often than not shocking them with scenarios that may be too close to the truth.
Stone is back in this the fourth installment in the Camel Club series, and he's once again on the run. "With two early morning pulls of the trigger he'd become the most wanted man in America."
He's too smart to try to board a plane knowing the major airports are alive with those looking for him but instead buys a ticket on the Amtrack Crescent, headed for New Orleans. Once settled in his seat, ever alert, he takes note of his fellow passengers - a mother with a baby, a thin man eating a cheeseburger, and a kid a few years out of high school but still wearing his varsity jacket. "To Stone's eye the young man also had the look of someone who was certain that the world owed him everything and had never bothered paying its bill"
The young man is Danny Riker who is soon assaulted by a trio who accuse him of cheating at cards. Stone rescues Danny and the two leave the train at the next stop. When Stone finds out that Danny is from an Appalachian coal mining town, Divine, Virginia, he decides that might be the perfect place for him to hide out.
Divine might be a good place to take cover but it's also a place where corruption is rampant and most of the coal miners are methadone addicts due to the daily injections they take to pass inspections. Couple this with a suicide that in truth might have been murder, and you have an idea what Stone is up against.
In addition to being a masterful storyteller, an expert at creating riveting suspense, Baldacci is a native of Virginia and lives there today. Thus, he brings an added realism to his descriptions of this area and its people.
Highly recommended.
- Gail Cooke
Great sequel to Stone Cold October 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This books carries on from where the last camel club adventure left off with the hero plunging into the waves after assassinating his old CIA boss and the senator who killed his wife. After this, it becomes a chase movie and then Oliver Stone becomes Jack Reacher (from the Lee Child novels), the stranger in a strange town, delivering justice to the small town bad guys. I enjoyed it, although I had to keep referring back to the previous book to remind myself who some of the supporting characters were. in what I presume is the last outing of the camel club, Mr Baldacci has them going out in a blaze of glory. Recommended.
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