david baldacci books the camel club series

He slogged free of the breakers and jogged toward a large boulder where he snagged the cloth bag he'd previously hidden. He pointed himself at a cleft in the rock and shot toward it. Now he just wanted land he was tired of impersonating a fish. He used to be able to swim all day, but he wasn't twenty anymore. Twenty minutes later he cut toward shore, all four limbs cement. He didn't have much time to get this done. He stripped off his waterlogged pants, shirt and shoes and then kicked off swimming east. He'd been in the bay less than a minute yet the chill was already drizzling into his bones despite the full-body wet suit he wore underneath his clothes. With each streak of lightning sparking to earth, he eyed the three-story-high cliff he'd been standing on. Nothing he saw was too appealing right now. As he treaded water he looked around to gauge his bearings. Yet when you throw yourself off a thirty-foot cliff into an angry ocean, you should be thankful just to have a heartbeat. The long dive had caused him to go farther down than was particularly healthy.

Oliver Stone cracked the surface of the water and gulped in the thick salty air, a thirsty man in the center of a trillion-ton ocean. The bay is indeed a creation of remarkable beauty, except when you happen to be swimming in the middle of the damn thing during a thunderstorm in the veiled darkness of early morning. It's also the home of myriad bird and aquatic life, and a haven for legions of recreational boaters. Nearly two hundred miles long, its watershed covers an area of sixty-five thousand utopian square miles with more than a hundred and fifty rivers and streams barreling into it. T HE C HESAPEAKE B AY is America's largest estuary.

As the hunters close in, Stone’s flight from the demons of his past will take him from the power corridors of Washington, D.C., to the coal-mining town of Divine, Virginia–and into a world every bit as bloody and lethal as the one he left behind. With their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club risk everything to save him. He, more than anyone else, wants John Carr dead.

Yet behind the scenes, master spy Macklin Hayes is playing a very personal game of cat and mouse. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who destroyed Stone’s life and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced.īut his freedom comes at a steep price: The assassinations he carried out prompt the highest levels of the U.S. Known by his alias, “Oliver Stone,” John Carr is the most wanted man in America.

won’t protect him from a lethal world of political corruption in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller. government after him, former CIA assassin Oliver Stone is America’s most wanted man-but escaping D.C.

David baldacci books the camel club series