You Won't Cut This Cable
Forbes Indonesia|March 2021
Camino Winds—by John Grisham (Doubleday, $28.95). This novel by the foremost man of letters from Mississippi since William Faulkner takes up where a previous gripper, Camino Island (Bantam, 2017), left off. The most interesting character in both of these well-constructed, can’t-put-’emdowners is Bruce Cable, an independent bookstore owner. A lover of rare books and manuscripts and an imaginative and tireless marketer who takes delight in promoting promising writers and in doing all he can to make sure established authors sell multiple hundreds of their latest works at festive book signings and readings, Cable is a prodigious reader and man of high taste. He also has a rather roguish side that enables him to charmingly seduce attractive women. PC he is not.
You Won't Cut This Cable

In Camino Island, priceless handwritten manuscripts of F. Scott Fitzgerald have been ingeniously stolen from Princeton University’s legendary library. Who pulled offthe heist and, more to the point, how are these manuscripts going to be fenced? Authorities, not without reason, suspect that Cable is somehow involved. To get the goods on him, they recruit Mercer Mann, a young woman who years before had spent time on Camino Island with her grandmother, Tess. Mercer is a novelist who has ostensibly returned to her grandmother’s house to finish her second book. Her real task is to get to know Cable and use their budding friendship to gain critical information about where the manuscripts are. After plenty of pulse-raising situations, the items are recovered, while Cable ends up doing well for himself. He and Mercer actually do become close friends. And Cable turns out not to be the total fiend we originally suspect he is.

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