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Stone Cold
by David Baldacci

Release Date: 26th Jun 2008
Publisher: Pan Macmillian
ISBN: 978 0 3304 5098 0
RRP: £6.99

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An unmissable thriller...

With an overload of thrillers on the mass market these days, it is hard to discern the wheat from the chaff in that many of them have a feel of 'sameness' about them. Whilst this is not necessarily a bad thing (it certainly helps fans know what they're getting), it does mean that it can be incredibly difficult for an author to get his head above the parapet. Baldacci manages to do just that with Stone Cold however.

Oliver Stone looks after a cemetery, lives in a modest cottage with minimal effects and to an outsider would appear ordinary, if not a little dull. But Stone has a clandestine past, one which includes being part of a top secret assassination task force and from which he has been running ever since. Having reinvented himself somewhat, he has formed the Camel Club, a gentlemen's club by all accounts - but one which contains very few members. Recently, con artist - Annabelle - was given honorary membership and when she finds herself on the wrong side of mobster Bagger, she reluctantly turns to Stone, unwittingly upping her chances of survival considerably.

Finn works for the Department of Homeland Security. His job is to infiltrate secure bases, storage areas and other sites of national importance in order to highlight their security deficiencies. Finn is remarkably good at his job, but he is even better at killing and he has an old score to settle with the elite group known as Triple-Six. Working his way down a list of know mostly retired or inactive men, his sights are set on Carter Gray and Senator Simpson as his final hits. John Carr is on that list too - but he died years ago...didn't he? And what has a Russian spy and an American traitor got to do with Finn?

A stunning plot full of twist and turns that are guaranteed to keep you riveted to your seat - Stone Cold is simply a superb example of the thriller genre. Just enough gun fights, close shaves and political intrigue and manipulation to keep you gasping from start to finish. The characterisation is literary heaven, with fully developed individuals and interactions that are both believable and energising. Even the lesser characters are well drawn, which is a feat in itself. There is nothing to dislike about Stone Cold - it delivers, full stop.

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