The Collectors by David Baldacci

The camel club strikes again!

This book took me a while to get into, just like the camel club did. And though I liked the book, I never felt like I couldn't put it down.

You follow a group of con artists who pull a "long con" for $40 million on a casino king in Atlantic City. In the meantime, you read of an assassin who targets different people in Washington DC. And finally, you also read of the camel club and their quest to research a conspiracy theory regarding different deaths in DC. You know that the 3 storylines will converge at some point, you just don't know when, or how they will. It turns out that the mastermind con artist (Annabelle) is an ex-wife of a murdered co-worker of a camel club member. Confused? I was for a while!

Annabelle works with the camel club to uncover the plot behind the seemingly unrelated murders. The camel club discovers that the reason for all the murders is that people are selling secrets to various enemies of the US. They discover the complicated plot to get the secrets from government agents through to the people who are buying the secrets. During all of this, the casino king is hunting down Annabelle to make her pay for her mistake of conning him.

The book ends with the spy plot revealed, but the casino king is hot on Annabelle's trail. Can't wait for the next camel club installment to find out if Annabelle will be discovered...