Good luck to anyone who thinks that one might work.
JOHN GRISHAM CAMINO ISLAND REVIEW SERIAL
Needless to say, Bruce Cable is also a serial philanderer with an open marriage and improbable chat up lines like, “let's hop in the sack”. So I enjoyed all the references to him his wife Zelda, and their friend, the harder drinking Ernest Hemingway who is alleged to have taken the opportunity to sleep with her whenever Scott passed out. Scott Fitzgerald fan, and his “The Great Gatsby” is one of my favourite novels, (albeit before he died aged only 44 his worst selling one). I wasn’t at all surprised to see that Grisham has already knocked out a sequel, “Camino Winds”, and is apparently thinking about a third one. There is also a good supporting cast of the colony of entertaining eccentric local authors living at the sleepy resort, who all drink rather a lot and then bitch about their friends' limitations as writers. I think the book’s greatest charm is the two really interesting main characters, so that by the end, you are totally invested in them and actually care what is going to happen in the rather exciting denouement as the FBI close in. It’s a tourist haven with lots of bars and restaurants where Mercer had often visited her grandmother who had a home on the beach and was a guardian of the nesting sea turtles. He is charismatic, dapper and popular and regularly hosts book signings by touring authors but he also has a massive collection of rare first editions and in his spare time is a fence of valuable stolen books.įinally comes Mercer Mann, a 31-year-old novelist suffering from writer’s block and haunted by student loan debts, so easily recruited by the insurers to try to infiltrate Cable’s inner circle, and avoid them having to make a $25 million pay out to the university.Ĭamino Island is also fictitious, but probably based on Amelia Island off North East Florida. Then we meet the lead character, Bruce Cable, a sophisticated, handsome and successful bookseller, running a busy independent book store on Camino Island, just off Florida. Scott Fitzgerald’s original manuscripts from Princeton University’s Firestone Library.įirst we are introduced to the rather ruthless leader of the gang of book thieves, Denny, a former Army Ranger who has turned to crime after being kicked out of the military.
Although John Grisham is mainly known for his legal thrillers, “Camino Island” is a little unusual in that it doesn’t include a single courtroom scene, but is basically a crime caper, about the fictitious theft of all five of F.
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