He awoke and sat straight up, the sweat trickling down his cheeks before finally creeping onto his long, bushy beard. As his wife fell, he raced to his little girl's side to shield her. It was the split-second bulge of the pupils that signaled death before one's brain could even register it.
Then a second bullet found its target and his wife's eyes widened slightly. A bullet sliced through his wife's wrist, and he heard her scream. The young girl next to her was their daughter. He couldn't see who was shooting, and he had no weapon to return fire. He was running hard, bullets embedding in things all around him. You can read an excerpt of "The Camel Club" below. With the help of a retired Secret Service agent, the Camel Club attempts to stave off a catastrophe that could be the undoing of the United States. After witnessing a murder, the club is thrust from society's fringes into the very core of governmental power.
How much power is too much and what could be going on beyond the view of the American public? The book's main character, Oliver Stone - a name chosen by the author out of admiration for movie director Oliver Stone's exploration of conspiracy theories - leads the Camel Club, a group of "members whom society has forgotten." Stone and his crew study current events and speculate about crooked government schemes. 27, 2005 — - Like David Baldacci's other novels - "Absolute Power" and "The Simple Truth" - "The Camel Club" examines the reach of governmental control. 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.Oct. With their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club risk everything to save him. He, more than anyone else, wants John Carr dead. Yet behind the scenes, master spy Macklin Hayes is playing a very personal game of cat and mouse. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who destroyed Stone’s life and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced.īut his freedom comes at a steep price: The assassinations he carried out prompt the highest levels of the U.S. Known by his alias, “Oliver Stone,” John Carr is the most wanted man in America.
won’t protect him from a lethal world of political corruption in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller. government after him, former CIA assassin Oliver Stone is America’s most wanted man-but escaping D.C.
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