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Divine Justice

David Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing (2008)
ISBN 9780446195508
Reviewed by Narayan Radhakrishnan for RebeccasReads (12/08)

I am slowly turning into a David Baldacci fan… a fanatic of David Baldacci thrillers. Ever since I read “Absolute Power” (and later saw the movie starring Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman) I have been in the habit of reading the novels of David Baldacci. And its not often you hear of a lawyer author who has carved success in a genre, outside the legal thriller genre.

But when Baldacci introduced the “Camel Club” series, I just went bonkers. The concept of conspiracy theory was given another dimension, a facelift by Baldacci, and I just had to buy and read, re-read, re-re-read all of his books.  Thus, I bought and read “The Camel Club,” “The Collectors” and “Stone Cold,” and I became a fan of Oliver Stone. For the uninitiated Baldacci reader, Oliver Stone is the series protagonist. And if you confuse him with the real Oliver Stone, I can’t blame you: like his eponymous, this Oliver Stone is also one big conspiracy theorist; in fact the origin of this Oliver Stone is also shrouded in conspiracy.

“Divine Justice” ties up some loose ends in the Camel Club series. The origin of the man Oliver Stone is dealt with in this book. John Carr was one of United States’ leading assassins. However, he soon got fed up with his job and wanted to call it quits. His bosses disagreed and to keep Carr as an assassin, they developed an idea: simple, kill off his family.  But the plan goes awry, and a bereaved Carr takes his guns against those in CIA and the power circles in United States. He kills the CIA chief, as well as a Senator and goes into hiding. The CIA deputes one Macklin Hays to trace John Carr. (And oh…before I forget, Carr was the earlier avatar of Oliver Stone.) But now Stone is in a place called Divine in Virginia. It is a sleepy coal-mining town, but with Stone arriving there, the ‘sleepiness’ doesn’t last long…

With their boss in hiding, the other members of the Camel Club are also at a loss of what to do, but they know one thing, they must rescue their chief, they must help him…but does Stone really require their help?
           
Frolicking between the past and present, alternating between the life of John Carr and the life of Oliver Stone, David Baldacci offers a unique thriller with an absorbing (and twisted) plotline, which culminates in a finish that is vintage Baldacci. Highly, highly enjoyable, I really absolutely devoured the book.

 

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