"The Collectors" by David Baldacci

David Baldacci follows his best selling Camel Club with this book, The Collectors. Though each of these books can be read as individual novels, reading them in order will provide a better understanding of the charactors that run through the series. We both have read this and feel that it was certainly as good as the first and that anything by this author should be a must read. This thriller is packed with suspense. We give it 4 Stars.

DESCRIPTION: A thriller that opens with the assassination of the Speaker of the House and the director of the Library of Congress. Annabelle is a beautiful stranger with a mysterious past, planning the heist of the century - two short cons to fund a long con, then a life of unashamed luxury, incognito in a foreign land. Jonathan DeHaven, the shy head of the Rare Books Division at the Library of Congress, is planning nothing more than an uneventful day amongst his cherished collection. But when Jonathan is found dead by Caleb Shaw, a member of the Camel Club, two conspiracies are destined to meet as the Club determines to track down the dead man's long-lost wife - and Annabelle decides to avenge the death of her beloved ex-husband. Unfortunately, the victim of Annabelle's long con has sworn eternal revenge and Jonathan's killers will stop at nothing to keep the truth about his death, and the code they have perfected over the years, from surfacing.