![]() Scott Fitzgerald (1) Gayle Forman (1) Gayle Lynds (3) George R.R. Walker (1) Diane Stanley (1) Elizabeth Blake (2) Eric Van Lustbader (1) F. Box (33) Carlos Ruiz Zafon (1) Carole Lawrence (4) Carolyn Haines (1) Christopher Reich (1) Clive Cussler (8) Colin Cotterill (2) Culley Holderfield (1) D.J.MacHale (11) Dan Brown (3) David Baldacci (34) David J. I love books about books, and I love the inside look (hey this is John Grisham) at writers, manuscripts, first edition books, etc.Īlexandra Penney (1) Andrew Britton (1) Andrew Peterson (3) Anne Rice (2) Barry Eisler (20) Blaze Recommends (17) Brad Meltzer (7) Brad Thor (10) Bram Stoker (1) C.E. “Camino Island” is a fantastic read! I could not put it down. Mercer then…….oh, sorry, you will have to read the book to see what happens. Her company will pay off all her debts and pay her $100,000 for six months work writing her novel on Camino Island….where Mercer’s family owns a cottage and Mercer spent every summer with her Grandmother.Īll she had to do was to “infiltrate” the writing community on Camino Island and get in good with Bay Books owner, Bruce Cable, who the FBI suspects has the Fitzgerald manuscripts. ![]() Then, Elaine Shelby came into her life with an offer that Mercer could hardly decline. She desperately wanted to finish her novel (she already had one published, and it was very good), but, she needed to work. Mercer is deep in debt (school loans), and now, without a job, her short term prospects are bleak. ![]() Mercer Mann was losing her teaching job at the University of North Carolina due to budget cuts (taxes do pay for stuff and the Republicans in charge had made deep cuts). Upon hearing this, Ahmed fled the country, Denny killed Trey, then sold the manuscripts for a meager one-half million on the black market and then….disappeared. The celebration was short lived as Jerry had cut himself at the scene and the FBI now knew who one of the thieves was and were waiting for him to come home. Each manuscript will be worth millions, and Mark, Denny, Trey, Jerry, and Ahmed are basking in their new found wealth. Scott Fitzgerald’s original handwritten manuscripts, including “The Great Gatsby”, from the Firestone Library at Princeton University. Together, they planned, and executed, the nearly perfect heist of several of F. The twists and turns that follow are fascinating and compelling, and takes the reader on a journey of the underground black market per the book selling business that people never ever knew existed.Mark, Denny, Trey, Jerry, and Ahmed planned the “perfect” crime. The woman representing the secretive organization feels that the English professor now without a job, but moving into the Camino Island’s beach house is the perfect person to help with the investigation by getting involved with the bookstore’s community, and most importantly getting close to the bookstore’s owner to discover important information for the investigation. The organization believes that they are tied to a popular bookstore on Camino Island where the owner deals in the underground black market of rare books and manuscripts. Out of seemingly nowhere, a stranger approaches her and offers her a very large amount of money to assist their organization in investigating the disappearance of Faulkner’s five original manuscripts stolen from the university’s archives. She already has had one book published that became a best seller. She makes a decision to move there for a few months and pursue the love of her career, which is writing fictional books. She is part-owner of a family owned beach house located at Camino Island in Florida. The story shifts to a female college professor who teaches creative English classes at a North Carolina University struggling to pay off her large student loan debt, who suddenly finds herself without a job due to the university’s budget situation. Two of the thugs are caught immediately by law enforcement, but are not talking while incarcerated. popular university’s archives and steal five of William Faulkner’s original manuscripts and then proceed to ransom them off for millions. The reader will certainly be absorbed and riveted, and as always Grisham makes a case for social justice.Ī gang of five thugs with diverse backgrounds plan to break into a high-ranking eastern U.S. This book of fiction by John Grisham qualifies as one of his best writings in my view.
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