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    The Camel Club

    Written by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Jonathan Davis

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    It exists at the fringes of Washington, D.C., has no power, and consists solely of four eccentric and downtrodden members whom society has forgotten. Their simple goal is to find the "truth" behind their country's actions.

    One man leads this aging, ragtag crew. He has no known past and has taken the name "Oliver Stone". Day and night, Stone and his friends study wild conspiracy theories, current events, and the machinations of government, hoping to discover some truth that will hold America's leaders accountable to its citizens. Yet never in Stone's wildest nightmares could he imagine the conspiracy the Camel Club is about to uncover.

    After witnessing a shocking murder, the Club is slammed headfirst into a plot that threatens the very security of the nation, full of stunning twists, high-stakes intrigue, and global gamesmanship rocketing to the Oval Office and beyond. Soon the Club must join forces with veteran Secret Service agent Alex Ford, who becomes an unwilling participant in one of the most chilling spectacles to ever take place on American soil. It's an event that may well be the catalyst for the long-threatened Armageddon between two different worlds, and all that stands in the way of this apocalypse are five unexpected heroes.

    In The Camel Club, bestselling author David Baldacci paints a frighteningly vivid portrait of a world that could be our own very soon, and the few people who have a chance to stop the chaos.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateOct 25, 2005
    ISBN9781594832543
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    The Camel Club
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    David Baldacci

    David Baldacci is one of the world’s bestselling and favourite thriller writers. A former trial lawyer with a keen interest in world politics, he has specialist knowledge in the US political system and intelligence services, and his first book, Absolute Power, became an instant international bestseller, with the movie starring Clint Eastwood a major box office hit. He has since written more than forty bestsellers featuring Amos Decker, Aloysius Archer, Atlee Pine and John Puller. David is also the co-founder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across the US. Trust him to take you to the action.

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    • 4/5
      Washington DC. 4 eccentric members make up The Camel Club. Oliver Stone is the leader. They study conspiracy theories, current events and the workings of government to find the truth behind their actions. They witness a shocking murder. They join forces with secret service agent to confront a chilling spectacle on American soil which may trigger war between 2 worlds. A slow start but the 2nd half made up for it. Interesting characters and unique plot. Love Baldacci's Maxwell and King, Will Robie and Amos Decker series. Recommended if you love history and political intrigue.
    • 4/5
      I read some of this series 10 or so years ago and really didn’t care much for it. It has always been my least favorite of everything David Baldacci…one of my favorite authors of all time… ever wrote. The essence of the series is politics and more politics. The characters though, are another matter. Oliver Stone and Agent Ford are what would keep most people reading and coming back for more. Ten years later…I’m back for more…and it was all because it was a group read for the Mystery & Suspense group on LibraryThing…people that make everything worth reading. I still didn’t care for all the politics but the action was superb…especially the last few chapters. If any American, or any other world citizen can read or listen to these last 6 or 7 chapters and not find themselves holding their breath and their heart rate accelerated…then they are already ready for that granite stone. Well done…reading group. I think I’ll join you for the next one.
    • 3/5
      Camel Club is a good read for a holiday but followed a predictable theme of conspiracies within conspiracies. Some interesting final revelations but nothing that really grabbed me.
    • 3/5
      Actually, I'd give this a 3-1/2 star rating, maybe even 3-3/4. The biggest gripe I have about the book is that it was a SLLLLLOOOOOOOOWWWWWW first half. The second half moved much more quickly and was much more enjoyable. Loved the main characters. The plot line? Not so much. I am pretty good at suspending disbelief, but c'mon man ... this whole thing would SOOOO NOT happen. Overall enjoyable though.
    • 3/5
      The Camel Club are a group of four friends, all social misfits, who meet regularly to discuss conspiracy theories. In this book they inadvertently witness a murder and in following up on the investigation uncover and foil a terrorist plot to use a kidnapped US President to start World War III.This is a very long book and definitely a page-turner, but I am not sure where all the words have come from, or, at least, where they have all been used. The action and plot line are fairly limited and tend to take a straight line from supposition ('I bet he is a spy...') to confirmation ('Look, he is a spy...'). Characterisation is pretty good, but there are some characters are so thinly drawn that when they impinge on the central story their impact is limited; we either do not care enough, or we do not remember who they are.The book is dedicated to the US Secret Service and a key character is a member of the Service. In a book this size I expected to read a lot more about the Service, who they are, what they do and, most importantly, how they do it. Overall, a bit of a disappointment, but a reasonable beach read and I will look out for other books in the series, just not that hard.
    • 1/5
      This novel started with five stars, but it was very disappointing. I'm glad this is the first in the series. I won't waste more time and money. The characters are just cardboard, names or any kind of stereotype. The characters in this novel: Americans are bad and vacuous. Men are stupids and women are w#$%, and the other characters oh.. they have an odor of sanctity. Well and what about the plot, what plot!?
    • 2/5
      Here is a book with so much wasted potential. I loved the idea that a group of eccentric conspiracy theorists -- The Camel Club -- had stumbled on a true conspiracy which involved the highest levels of the American Intelligence community and Islamic terrorists. So much fun could have been made of this situation but, Baldacci let this one get away from him to the point of absurdity. For one, the chief villain was so unbelievably invincible that not even Batman himself could have taken him on in a fight. Baldacci also seemed to feel it important, throughout the story, to present the Islamic world as superior to America, and to justify its terrorism on the basis of their victimization by the West. Not even the interesting cast of characters -- especially the Camel Club members -- could save this lousy plot.
    • 2/5
      To my surprise, I did not care for this Baldacci book. Many many characters to follow and difficult to remember without having the visual to help keep track of who is who. In addition, the narrator was not sufficiently talented to keep the dialogue of each character separated and distinct. I could only listen to half of it and decided I still did not know what was happening. I moved on to another book. The story has several strings to the story that will eventually come together but again, too many threads to keep straight about who were the good guys the traitors who only worked for money and the bad guys were the militant Muslims.
    • 4/5
      believable thriller
    • 4/5
      An average thriller with its share of some interesting moments
    • 2/5
      Usually don't go in for the pop-thriller stuff, but a friend insisted. Now I remember why. I know lots of people love it, but a lot of people think that Roseanne is funny. Got through the first two CDs and just couldn't take the non stop crappy airport fiction dialogue.
    • 3/5
      The Camel Club is the first novel in a series by David Baldacci that introduces us to an extraordinary group of individuals that have their own way of trying to keep our country safe, even from people that would not usually be suspected. Jonathan Davis narrated this audiobook and did a great job of building the action and suspense within the novel.There are many characters that are introduced within the book, but Oliver Stone, who also leads the Camel Club is the character that we get to know the most. Stone is quite a mysterious man as he doesn't seem to have a past but yet knows many of the in's and out's of secret government issues. When the Camel Club gathers for a meeting in the beginning of the novel, they unfortunately witness a murder, which lands them knee deep in the middle of a conspiracy that will add excitement to all of their lives.Shortly after the murder takes place, we learn about a plot to kidnap the President of the United States. Plans have been in place by a terrorist organization that include people that have been working as nannies to medical doctors. Once the President is kidnapped the Secret Service picks up a trail that somehow leads them right in the path of Oliver Stone and the rest of the Camel Club.These events are somehow linked to the conspiracy and the Camel Club finds themselves working with the Secret Service to unravel the mystery. As I indicated, this audiobook is full of action and suspense to keep your attention through most of the book. I did find my attention wavering in a few parts, which is why I am going to give this audiobook just an average rating. I'm sure that Baldacci fans will eat this one up though!
    • 4/5
      Love it! Too bad I'm reading them out of order but it's still nice to read the back story.
    • 3/5
      This book was very well done. I quite enjoyed it, however i am into the characters much further along. So this would be a prequel to me but that really added to my enjoyment. It is an earlier book about Oliver Stone. It was fun for me to see the group "Camel Club" more in it's infancy. it also answered some questions i had about alex in the later books and now have alot better understanding of his character. good and bad but now in different places. basically this is a group about concerned people trying to keep a watch on things and the crappy, stupid and conspiratol goverment issues that come up. of course they all have their talents and they mix to make a great team, however amatuerist they may seem.
    • 4/5
      Typical thriller, quick moving once it got started. Plenty of plot to keep you interested. Lots of characters, which made it a bit slow to get started, having to introduce and position everyone, but worth the wait. So it's not great literature, but it's a fun read and I like the people in it. I think I'll be enjoying additional books in the Camel Club series.
    • 4/5
      Took a long time to get the characters developed before the plot really started. However, the plot moved quite quickly after the first 75 pages!
    • 3/5
      Someone is out to create chaos by attacking the president of the United States. The Camel Club will do their best to prevent them, with some assistance from an agent in the Secret Service. The problem is, it is not at all clear who the enemy is.This is not my preferred genre, but I enjoyed the book. The narrator, James Naughton was pleasant to listen to. A gripping story which was very difficult to stop listening to at times. I'm still a bit unclear about the message of the book, it did come across as preachy, but I'm just not sure what it was preaching. I really liked Oliver Stone and his Camel Club, enough so that I might even try another story which included them, if it has been written.
    • 4/5
      One of those that is hard to put down once you start reading. Well-done except the description of how the transfer to the black helicopter was made was a non-description and left me going back to see what I had missed, only to find I had missed nothing----the transfer was quite vague and disappointing.
    • 5/5
      This is the first book that I read by David Baldacci and it is the best book that I have read in a very long time. I have since been reading the rest of the Camel Club series as well as his other books.
    • 4/5
      An excellent, easy-to-follow political thriller that manages to keep you guessing. Great characters, well developed plot. Looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
    • 3/5
      The Camel Club is the first in a series of the same name. The Camel Club is a group of misfit men who, for the most part, are retired government employees. They make an interesting group: "Oliver Stone," the former CIA assassin; Reuben Rhodes, the Vietnam vet who washed out of his intelligence job; Milton Farb, the former NIH employee whose OCD got the best of him; and Caleb Shaw, the only one to survive the government mill as an employee at the Library of Congress' rare books division. This bookish gentleman of course adds another fun twist for a bibliophile like me. The Camel Club's purpose is to search for government conspiracy and, in The Camel Club, they find one, which quickly becomes a matter of life and death for them and others. David Baldacci's Camel Club series of political thrillers definitely gets off on the right foot. The characters are intriguing and the story tightly woven. I look forward to reading the rest of the series, and I think you will too.
    • 4/5
      Exciting quick read of crime, conspiracy, and some quirky characters with Washington DC as a backdrop.
    • 4/5
      If you like governmental thrillers, then this is the series for you. I was surprised what a good yarn it was. I am looking forward to reading further about the Camel Club.
    • 4/5
      Great fast-paced political thriller, and I generally don't care for politics in my thrillers (or in general for that matter). The characters are very-well developed. My favorite being bad-guy, Hemingway, who seemed was a little over-the-top with his almost comic book villian-esque powers. The story was very engaging and seemed very true to life. And the biggest kudo to this book is that it got me through my first ever 7 mile run and then my first eve 8 mile run - I was that intrigued by this story. I can't wait to listen to the rest of the series.
    • 4/5
      I was rather impressed with the Camel Club. It was a fast-paced thriller, The main characters are part of The Camel Club, and all 4 members appear to be at first glance, weird conspiracy nuts. As we get to know them we see there is a lot more than meets the eye. We start off following the Camel Club to a secret meeting on Roosevelt Island, where much to their dismay, they witness a murder, that was to be disguised as a suicide. Worse the murderers discover they had been observed and try to eliminate the problem. This is where things really start to pick up for the Camel Club, as in becoming dangerous. Oliver, Caleb, Milton and Reuben decide to try and find the killers before the killers find them. Along the way we meet Alex Ford, a secret service agent assigned to look into the death to keep his agency in the loop, since the man found dead was an NIC/Secret Service employee. While we watch the progress of our heroes we also get to watch the 'bad guys' putting their terrorist plot together and we get hints and clues of what is up, but never a clear picture of what they are trying to accomplish until they pull it off.I really enjoyed this book, it was not just a shoot-em-up but allowed the reader to try and figure out what was going on and pick up clues along the way. I certainly plan on reading more in the series. One of the better books I've read in a while for a conspiracy book. The end even had some great ideas more people need to think about as far as international relations go.
    • 5/5
      The first book I read by Baldacci was The Christmas Train a couple years ago. Intrigued by his style I picked up The Collectors at a discount store (3.00 for a hardback!) It introduced me to Oliver Stone and his group, and that led me to this book.Knowing more know of how Olivers group of friends came together, the group makes much more sense, and a lot more background is in this book than the other. Mostly why Stone is so concentrated on making sure what goes on at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue stays on the up and up.The Camel Club goes to meet one night on a small island on the Potomac, just outside DC, and witnesses a murder, made to look like a suicide. They are seen briefly, and end up one of the next targets by the men who commited the murder they witnessed. In the meantime, little do they know, an attack on the President is being planned, from inside one of the USA's own intelligence agencies. with the help of a very dedicated secret service agent, and other friends, the Camel Club soon has to save the USA, and the world, from self destruction.A wonderfully paced book, Baldacci takes you around DC and its suburbs, Western Pennsylvania, and the Middle East turmoil, and multiple groups try to bring about thier own political agendas with no one to stop them, except for The Camel Club.
    • 5/5
      An excellent conspiracy theory thriller. Baldacci takes a non too subtle sideswipe at US foreign policy in this story that builds it's numerous plot threads to a roaring climax. A good read featuring Secret Service agents, the CIA, Muslim terrorists and a mystery who spends his time in a tent out the front of the White House. This is apparently the first in a series of novels featuring the same characters and I look forward to reading these also.
    • 4/5
      Little hard to get into at first with all the unusual names, but quickly becomes intriguing. Great read.
    • 4/5
      The Camel Club is the first of a series of books relating to a group of people calling themselves The Camel Club. During this story, Oliver Stone and the other members witness a murder and begin searching for the murderers and the reasons behind it. They learn that there are some high ranking political figures involved in the conspiracy. While trying to save lives of others, they are forced to protect their own lives as well.I actually listened to Divine Justice (book 4 in the series) a week ago. It was the first of Baldacci's books for me. It was then that I decided that I'd like to back up and enjoy this whole series. I received the Camel Club Boxed Set from Anna Balasi of Hachette Book Group and couldn't wait to get started. This book didn't disappoint. I liked having a little bit of an idea about the characters. Oliver Stone, aka John Carr, is the main character and one of the members of the Camel Club. He is an ex-government agent and one of the nations most notorious killers. I have enjoyed learning about the government agencies that run our nation, and find myself wondering how much of this is fiction and how much might be true. The conspiracy isn't all that far fetched. Overall, great book and cannot wait to start book 2--The Collectors.
    • 4/5
      The Camel club stumbles onto a plot to kidnap the president and to hold him until our government recognizes the rights of the people of the middle east. Other greedy cuprites are involved and the plot thickens. His points are subtle and logical.