A generous offer of money convinces Mercer to go undercover and infiltrate Bruce Cable’s circle of literary friends, ideally getting close enough to him to learn his secrets.īut eventually Mercer learns far too much, and there’s trouble in paradise as only John Grisham can deliver it.
She is approached by an elegant, mysterious woman working for an even more mysterious company. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer’s block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars.īruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. fast-moving, entertaining tale.”- Pittsburgh Post-GazetteĪ gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. “A Time to Kill,” is still one of my all-time favorites novels. Myself and my book club will continue to read his works. I can only hope that John Grisham continues writing his style of novel. We definitely recommend this for book club. Of course, we all tried to figure out which island in Florida Grisham was writing about. We moved then to Grisham’s conversations regarding the literary versus popular fiction brought up at one of the writer’s dinners in the book and which each of us prefers. We talked at our meeting about the stealing of art in all its forms.
These gems are exactly what I would expect to find on a sleepy Florida beach community. Rounding out the cast are the local literati. Mercer is approached by a security and investigations company who offers her a lot of money to get close to Cable, just in case the Fitzgerald manuscripts come his way. Cable not only sold books in his book store on Camino Island, but played in the underground market of stealing and selling rare first editions.Ĭable, with his considerable charms, is cast against Mercer Man, a young novelist suffering from writing’s block who grew up on Camino Island. Grisham took us inside the book selling world with his character Bruce Cable. 33 The northern entrance to Camano Island is located 55 miles (89 km) north of Seattle. It lies east of the Saratoga Passage, which separates it from the larger Whidbey Island, and is south of Skagit Bay. What would happen to such treasures in the hands of thieves and killers? Camano Island is located within the Puget Sound, separated from the mainland of Snohomish County by Port Susan and Davis Slough. As a group, we were fascinated by the thought of original handwritten manuscripts being stolen. Yes, it’s a fast read, but maybe that’s because the plot has plenty of tension and keeps you engaged. The members of my book club really enjoyed the novel. “Camino Island,” is certainly not a disposable read, and I’m sure my husband will like it as much as I did. With all the time and effort it takes to conceive and write a novel, as an author to hear the word “disposable,” would be heartbreaking. According to an article in the Washington Post, beach reads are “marketed exclusively to women… not worth a man’s time.” Beach reads are private affairs for private consumption, escapes from care, easy and disposable.
In the warm July temperatures, what could be better than a beach read for my book club.īut what exactly is a beach read? This term is thrown around so often, that I decided to find out. Scott Fitzgerald, kept in the vaults at Princeton University. Just the theft of the priceless original handwritten manuscripts of F. “Camino Island” is his version of a beach read. I watched John Grisham on CBS This Morning during his latest book launch for “Camino Island.” He said after years of being accused of writing beach reads, he decided to write one.
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