Camino Winds

Camino Winds – John Grisham

Back, to the old setting of Camino Island? Perhaps a breezier version?

The town is fictitious, but based on any number of similar Florida towns, and yet, the set-up for the story, a hurricane? The preparations are so close to what happened along our own Gulf Coast, not that long ago.

Port Aransas and Rockport TX both got slammed, and weird in the aftermath, because one house would still be standing and another, just gone. A fishing buddy claimed his neighbor clocked 174 MPH winds, but that’s not substantiated. Still, the howling wind brought back eery images of the devastation along the gem of the Gulf Coast in Texas.

But Camino Winds is set in Florida, and Grisham kills the lawyer, first thing. Not sure that’s all bad, right? Echoes of my cursory look at the Henry VI plays.

“First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”

Inexact quote, and I’m not willing to dig around for the referent, other than Henry 6th, pt. 2.

Camino Winds

I have a shelf full of Grisham first-edition, hardback, with full dust jackets. Maybe one doesn’t have a cover, but the rest are in good shape. So I’m loyal, to a fault, and, as always the fault an old girlfriend — because of her, I’m reading these now.

Rollicking read, enjoyable, and the murder and mayhem? Wrapped up nicely.

It’s a revisiting and moving forward, a grand sequel to the previous novel, and there would have to be a hint that there’s a spot for third one as previous plot line was left just tad un-finished.

To me, the prose itself was a little more flat and linear than previously, but there’s also that projectile-like progress, always moving forward.

Camino Winds

Camino Winds – John Grisham

Camino Winds