![]() ![]() By the time he was thirty, some gray was working itself into the picture, a few whiskers and a few strands of the long hair, and it was quite becoming.”Įlaine, the insurance investigator, believes Bruce Cable has the manuscripts. His hair was thick and wavy, and he wore it long, almost to his shoulders. He never wore socks, not even in January when the temperatures dipped into the forties. ![]() His ensemble was completed with a pair of dirty buckskins, no socks. “He owned a dozen different seersucker suits, each with a different shader color, and he wore one every day, along with a starched white shirt with a spread collar, and a loud bow tie, usually either red or yellow. In his own mind he is “a well-read playboy” and an ambitious businessman. Bruce Cable, owner of Bay Books, acquirer of valuable books, Southern dandy, and book (and author) lover. Mercer Mann, young, broke, aspiring writer with a past that includes time in Camino Island, Florida. The heist happens quickly in John Grisham’s latest novel, Camino Island, and serves as a backdrop for the real intrigue: where have the manuscripts gone after some of the thieves are caught and how can Princeton get them back.Įnter Elaine Shelby, an insurance investigator. As Mann looks for the books and comes to terms with her grandmother’s passing, she discovers a town filled with successful and failed writers, from romance novelists to struggling literary fiction authors, some with drinking problems, others brimming with the latest gossip.Īs the fate of the lost manuscripts is revealed page by page, the action pivots among Mann, Cable and the thieves until all is revealed.Ĭamino Island makes a fine beach read no matter what island you end up on this summer.One of the greatest literary treasures in the United States, F.Scott Fitzgerald’s hand-written manuscripts are stolen from the Firestone Library on Princeton University’s campus by a gang of five: Denny, a former Army ranger kicked out of the military Mark, a professional thief with a history of “smash-and-grab” jobs involving art and artifacts ransomed back to the original owners Jerry and Trey, petty thieves who met in prison and Ahmed, a computer hacker. She’s soon recruited by an outfit working for the insurance company as the perfect sleuth to suss out the fate of the manuscripts – she spent much of her youth on Camino Island with her grandmother, who died tragically. Next we meet Mercer Mann, a novelist who cannot get her new book going and has recently lost her teaching job at the University of North Carolina. ![]() Could he somehow be involved in the Princeton theft? The reader is introduced to Bruce Cable, an outgoing and popular bookstore owner in the town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island, Florida, who just happens to make the occasional black market deal for stolen books – and who has a penchant for seersucker suits. Scott Fitzgerald, including The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night from Princeton University’s library.Īfter the successful caper turns sour – a few of the crew are quickly nabbed by the feds – the story moves south with an abrupt turn. John Grisham’s latest book is populated with ruthless thieves, witty writers and loads of intrigue.Īt the heart of the story is the theft of five priceless, yet heavily insured, original manuscripts by F. In between these bookends, Camino Island by John Grisham is populated with ruthless thieves, witty writers and enough intrigue to fill a bookstore’s mystery aisle. John Grisham’s latest tale opens with a robbery and closes with a reconciliation.
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