Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts from the Princeton library. The novel’s setup is classic Grisham intrigue: a gang of thieves pulls off a brilliant heist of priceless F. Thus it’s fitting that "Camino Island" is a story about books themselves. More: John Grisham: An excerpt from his new novel, 'Camino Island' More: John Grisham doing 1st big book tour in 25 years It blends the zeal of a novice with the élan of a professional. As such, it has the feel of Grisham reaching out to his readers across the trunk of his old Saab, either downtown at the Capitol or upstate in the parking lot of Ruth and Jimmie’s. Yet his latest, "Camino Island," reads like the Grisham of old-like a young author burning with a good story to tell, eager to bend your ear with a yarn you can’t resist. Grisham became a perennial best-seller, sold books by the millions, and has been translated into forty languages. Since then, the digital era reared its head, and any of the twenty-odd Grisham novels that followed "A Time to Kill" were much more likely to be downloaded than bought direct. That first novel and the personal hand-selling of it have become a part of publishing lore. In fact, his fans delight in recounting decidedly low-tech tales of the young author peddling copies of his first book, "A Time to Kill," everywhere he went. John Grisham’s career took off in the pre-internet era, before Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Amazon.
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