Doubleday Books
Camino Island
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Soak up the sun--and the intrigue--with the first novel in John Grisham's beloved Camino series.
"A happy lark [that] provides the pleasure of a leisurely jaunt periodically jolted into high gear, just for the fun and speed of it."--The New York Times Book Review
A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University's Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars.
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts.
Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious woman working for an even more mysterious company. A generous offer of money convinces Mercer to go undercover and infiltrate Bruce Cable's circle of literary friends, ideally getting close enough to him to learn his secrets.
But eventually Mercer learns far too much, and there's trouble in paradise as only John Grisham can deliver it.
Look for all of John Grisham's rollicking Camino novels:
Camino Island
Camino Winds
Camino Ghosts
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Book Details
ISBN:
9780385543026
EAN:
9780385543026
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
304
Authors:
John Grisham
Publisher:
Doubleday Books
Published Date: 2017-06-06
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…and he followed it himself. I read past the first 100 pages and kept going, hoping for the sizzle. I can’t say it was there, but the book is well-written and should be read if only for that. It is a clever tale, however, somehow inevitable.
Since I retired in 2021, I've been either re-reading, or reading all Grisham books in sequence (I know, kinda weird, huh?).I enjoy them all, and this was no exception... but maybe even a better because it revisits characters from Camino Winds.
Just before the dynamite ending I almost "tossed" this book! I felt so bad for Mercer with the "petty too many details and needless characters" that I thought someone else had written this story! But the Gresham "touch" returned just in time to stay the coarse!
I haven’t read a John Grisham novel in a few years, but from the very beginning, I felt the excitement of new characters and a new story by this prolific author whose writing I have enjoyed immensely in the past.I must confess that I am a retired doctor who now writes a historic detective fiction series myself, having written thus far five novels.I was thrilled by Grisham’s introduction and development of characters and their final intersection. I intend to read the second and third books of this series and, hopefully, catch up on ones I missed. I am happy to have rediscovered John Grisham and look forward to reading more.This first book in the series has encouraged me in my own writing, given me ideas of what not to do with my own books as reviewed by one of the characters in this first book of the trilogy.
There is no one quite like John Grisham for a finely tuned plot and, boy howdy, was this ever one! Who would have guessed that a novel about a book store and a nice book seller with a very skilled larcenous streak (along with an equally skilled libido) could be so exciting! I wanted to visit! And boy, do I want to see those original John D. McDonald manuscripts! Don't miss this one!!
