Camino Island

Resumen del libro

All trails became dead-ends. Tips that had at first seemed urgent now faded away. The waiting game began.

Whoever had the manuscripts would want money, and a lot of it. They would surface eventually, but where and when, and how much would they want? The most daring and devastating heist in literary history targets a high security vault located deep beneath Princeton University. Valued at $25 million (though some would say priceless) the five manuscripts of F Scott Fitzgerald's only novels are amongst the most valuable in the world.

After an initial flurry of arrests, both they and the ruthless gang of thieves who took them have vanished without trace. Dealing in stolen books is a dark business, and few are initiated to its arts - which puts Bruce Kable right on the FBI's Rare Asset Recovery Unit's watch list. A struggling writer burdened by debts, Mercer Mann spent summers on Florida's idyllic Camino Island as a kid, in her grandmother's beach cottage.

Now she is being made an offer she can't refuse: to return to the peace of the island, to write her novel - and get close to a certain infamous bookseller, and his interesting collection of manuscripts ...

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B John Grishamx{0026}lt;/B (Jonesboro, Arkansas, 1955) se dedicaba a la abogacía antes de convertirse en un escritor de éxito mundial. Desde que publicó su primera novela en 1988, ha escrito casi una por año. Todas sin excepción han sido best sellers y ocho de ellas han resultado ser una magnífica fuente de guiones para el cine.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Entre sus obras destacan los siguientes títulos, todos ellos convertidos también en películas de éxito: x{0026}lt;I Tiempo de matarx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I La tapaderax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El informePelícanox{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El clientex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Cámara de gasx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Legítima defensax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El juradox{0026}lt;/I . Sus últimas obras publicadas en España son x{0026}lt;I Ajuste de cuentas, La gran estafa, El caso Fitzgerald, El soborno x{0026}lt;/I yx{0026}lt;I Un abogado rebelde.x{0026}lt;/I x{0026}lt;/P