5/15/2023 0 Comments The camel club series![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He writes as if he imagines his typical reader to be a business traveler staring down a long layover. Baldacci himself seems only partly engaged in the task here. Scooby-Doo had villains more complicated than these distinctive quirks of the characters, such as one wearing 19th-century clothing, make them only mildly interesting. Baldacci is not a particularly graceful writer, e.g., “Like all Secret Service agents, his suits were designed a little big in the chest, to disguise the bulge of the weapon.” Worse is the author’s chronic inability to draw convincing characters. Throughout, Baldacci ( Hour Game, 2004, etc.) drops reliable twists, revealing the federal agent murder to be-surprise-a minuscule piece of a much bigger plot involving snipers, nukes, a presidential kidnapping and an even gloomier vision of the future. Thus the author’s bleak imagining of the near future. Rocket-propelled grenades have pierced the White House, there’s been another prison fiasco in Afghanistan, a dozen soldiers are dying every day and the war has opened a new front on the Syrian border. A lukewarm would-be potboiler of uninvolving intrigue about a kooky quartet of conspiracy theorists-one by the name of “Oliver Stone”-who witness the murder of a federal agent.Īlmost 8,000 Americans have died in attacks on U.S. ![]()
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