** spoiler alert ** "Divine Justice" is the latest and least of The Camel Club quartet of novels by David Baldacci. While "Stone Cold" culminated the series just about perfectly, "Divine Justice" feels like a weak add-on. It starts promising enough, Baldacci putting Oliver Stone on the run, flushed from his secret identity and the subject of a federal manhunt, but the story quickly fizzles.

The core members of the club are left with little to do but play to their stock characterizations. This was the principal problem with the first in the series and it almost kept me from reading more. In books two and three I was glad to see the players come to life around a better plot, with fresh air provided by a new character. Book 4 tries the same device, making Oliver the one in need of help, but it just never connects, the preposterous standing in for nuanced reality (something I love about Michael Connelly).

One thing is for sure: I hope this is the last book I read where an antagonist is undone by confessing his villainy into a secret recording device.