The Collectors:a novel by David Baldacci

The Camel Club Rides Again**** January 20,2007


The Camel Club, a group of four dysfunctional crime solvers headed by ex-CIA assassin Caleb Shaw,is back again, this time investigating the death of a Director at the National Archives where one of the Camel Club members works. Right from the onset we know that renegade CIA agent Roger Seagraves has set himself up in the business of freelance assassination and selling our country's secrets to the highest bidder. But will the Camel Club unveil his nefarious conspiracy? This they do with the help of the clever and attractive young woman, Annabelle Conroy, who for the first part of the book is engaged in setting up a marvellous scam to bilk Jerry Bagger,the gangster owner of an Atlantic City casino, of millions in revenge for his killing of her mother some years earlier.This novel really is two stories which intersect in a somewhat contrived way but both are very enjoyable yarns.