He is made a member of the Club at the end of the book. Farb was the first of the group to warm up to Annabelle Conroy.Īlong with the original four, the Camel Club acquires additional members from people who share similar goals.Ī Secret Service agent, Ford helps the group in the first book, The Camel Club, as they try to uncover a conspiracy that involves the kidnapping of President James H. Stone met him and got him on the TV show Jeopardy! With medication, Farb was able to make a small fortune, with which he started a company for designing Web sites. Farb was hired by the National Health Institute, but was fired after sending a threatening letter to the President. As is shown in Stone Cold, Farb's gifts allow him to win extremely high amounts of money at casino games, such as blackjack. As a child, his parents had him act in a side show, adding extremely high numbers in his head and reciting extremely long sections of text without faltering. In The Collectors, Shaw's boss is murdered in the sealed Rare Book Room.įarb is a child prodigy who suffers from extreme obsessive-compulsive disorder and paranoia.
Shaw is also known for always wearing clothing from the 19th century. Shaw holds twin doctorates in political science and eighteenth century literature. He, like Rhodes, was a protester of the Vietnam war. He and Stone are the best marksmen in the group.Ĭaleb Shaw is an employee of the Rare Book Wing of the Library of Congress. After a few years of drug usage in England, Rhodes returned to the States, where he met Stone, who got him a job unloading trucks. In Stone Cold, people connected to Stone's past are killed by Harry Finn, whose ultimate goal is to kill former CIA Director Carter Gray.Ī West Point graduate and Vietnam vet, Reuben worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency but quit and became a war protester. Stone himself is also monitored by the government, which constantly has agents watching him. Stone is an ex- Green Beret and a former member of the esteemed and fictional "Triple Six" division of the CIA that was composed of highly skilled government assassins. Stone is a false name (his real name, though rarely used, is John Carr), taken because of the real Oliver Stone's conspiracy theory-themed movies. Oliver Stone is the leader of the Camel Club.
The four are political watch-dogs, who are always looking for conspiracies within the government.Ĭamel Club original members Oliver Stone
The original members are Oliver Stone, Reuben Rhodes, Caleb Shaw, and Milton Farb. They are the protagonists of five of his novels: The Camel Club, The Collectors, Stone Cold, Divine Justice, and Hell's Corner. The Camel Club is a group of fictional characters created by American novelist David Baldacci.
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