Camino Island: A Novel

Camino Island: A Novel

• Firsts Edition, 2017, first printing, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1, SIGNED by the author on the half title page, an otherwise new, unread, unworn, unopened, unmarked hardcover, with an equally fine unclipped ($28.95) dust jacket, from Doubleday. By John Grisham. Sticker on the front cover states: SIGNED COPY. Note we didn't scan the full page with the author signature to avoid breaking the spine there. ISBN 978-0-385-54302-6.

A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars.<br>     Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts.<br>     Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer’s block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious woman working for an even more mysterious company. A generous offer of money convinces Mercer to go undercover and infiltrate Bruce Cable’s circle of literary friends, ideally getting close enough to him to learn his secrets.<br>     But eventually Mercer learns far too much, and there’s trouble in paradise as only John Grisham can deliver it.