"Divine Justice"   by David Baldacci


Review #96

An Oliver Stone/John Carr Mystery with The Camel Club Gang

After shooting to death "a well-known U.S. senator and the nation's intelligence chief", (the two men responsible for his wife's murder), former CIA assassin, Oliver Stone (aka John Carr), boards a New Orleans-bound train at Washington's Union Station. Always the Good Samaritan, Stone intervenes to help an underdog in a fight on the train. But, when the Amtrak conductor asks to see his ID, he gets off at the next station, knowing his fake ID won't withstand scrutiny. This sudden detour takes Stone and the underdog to Divine, Va., a mining town where he discovers that small-town intrigue is, at least, as intricate and dangerous as anything he's come up against previously. And…where he falls for an attractive if beleaguered widow.

Not only is he evading his pursuers, especially Macklin Hayes, whose obsessive determination to capture Stone may be based more on personal reasons than professional ones, but he's also cast himself adrift from his “Camel Club” comrades, who are working feverishly behind the scenes to find him and keep him safe.

Balducci writes thrillers that can’t be beat!