Divine Justice, by David Baldacci

Lukewarm thriller. This is a less than satisfying entry into the Baldacci's wildly popular Camel Club series. It had a lot of distracting subplots set in rural Divine, Virginia, and a kind of unsatisfying end. The kind of book you might buy at the airport and leave on the plane when it was done.

Stone Cold, by David Baldacci

Pretty good spy-assassin-political thriller. Members of the Camel Club, along with hottie conwoman Annabelle work together to take down varied eeeevil politicians and casino owners. Plot holes you could drive a dumptruck through, but enough explosions and interesting assassinations (Andropov! Chernenko!) to keep it lively.

So OT- as a child, I had a hamster named Andropov, and I still have my stuffed polar bear Chernenko and my stuffed walrus Gorbachev. True, this. Might have influenced my liking of the book. As I read about the political mayhem, I glanced from time to time at Cherny and Gorby.