‘Divine Justice’ (David Baldacci)

When last we left John Carr, he had taken care of some business, “eliminating with extreme prejudice” a couple of people who were responsible for the death of a “Camel Club” member and definitely needed eliminating. The problem is that these were highly placed people.

John Carr is now “Oliver Stone” (reference is made several times to the famous movie director of the same name), changing his name after feigning his own death, and he is on the run from the man who betrayed him and wants to see HIM “eliminated.”

The Camel Club, a group of his friends who’ve stuck with him through thick and thin, decides they need to come to his rescue. In the meantime, government agent Joe Knox has been assigned by Gen. Macklin Hayes (a man with a hidden agenda) to deliver Oliver Stone to him.

Their paths converge on the small town of Divine, Virginia, where things aren’t quite they appear to be. Something illegal is going on in Divine and soon Stone finds himself in the middle of it, despite his initial desire not to become involved, but to get as far away from Washington D.C. as possible.

There are three stories being presented in “Divine Justice” – Oliver Stone’s adventures in Divine, the Camel Club’s involvement in trying to find him, and Joe Knox’s search on behalf of Gen. Hayes. They all come together in the unlikeliest of places when Stone and Knox find themselves incarcerated against their will in Dead Rock’s Blue Spruce Supermax Prison.

Baldacci is a master of political intrigue and suspense novels. I’ve read a number of books, starting with “Absolute Power,” his first. The one I read just before this was “The Collectors,” and I recently discovered that he’s had two more books between that one and this.

I guess I need to find them and catch up, don’t I?