Title: thriller by numbers
Product review: This book has all the requisite thriller ingredients but the result somehow came across as a rote exercise, lacking in inspiration.The political viewpoints of the author came through too loadly and overwhelmed the plot, which had too many logical flaws to be very believable. The constant shifts between people and locations made it hard to relate to any of the thinly developed characters and bogged down the story instead of making it more suspenseful. Finally, the Camel Club itself turned out to be rather incidental to the resolution of the conflict, a let down from the huge buildup it received in early chapters.Baldacci is too talented of a storyteller to settle for such a mediocre product. I'd like to see him put more care into his future novels.
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