![]() ![]() This part of the book, although a little laboured and not all that thrilling, has plenty to keep avid readers happy. Cable’s bookshop is also a regular stop on book signing tours so visiting authors also get a look in. All have something to say about the industry and advice for Mercer who has been unsuccessfully trying to write her second novel. Camino Island is full of authors of various genres and various stripes. ![]() They recruit, Mercer Mann, a struggling young author, to go undercover in the community and gather information on Cable.įrom there the book becomes, for the most part, a lengthy commentary on the American literary scene. Jump to a few months later and the insurer has an idea that the manuscripts are being held by Bruce Cable, an antiquarian bookseller who runs a successful bookshop on Florida’s Camino Island. Things almost immediately go wrong for the thieves but the manuscripts get away. And while it sometimes moves as languidly as a day on a Florida Beach, Grisham is still professional enough to always keep things moving.Ĭamino Island opens with the daring robbery of five F Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts held securely in the basement of a library at Princeton. Camino Island is part heist novel, part satire/commentary on the literary world and part thriller. This year he has delivered something extra for fans in which lawyers hardly feature. John Grisham regularly turns out a legal thriller every year around October. ![]()
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