Camino Island

Camino Island, by John Grisham, is the first book in his new Camino series, published in 2017 by Anchor. The novel is a departure from the legal thrillers that Grisham is known for, and he did his first book tour in years in order to promote it. Grisham’s career began in 1989 with his debut novel, A Time to Kill, and since then, his novels have been translated into nearly 50 languages. He boasts 47 consecutive #1 bestsellers, has twice won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, and has received the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction. Grisham is also on the board of directors of the Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization that works toward the exoneration of the wrongly convicted.

This study guide uses the e-book version of the novel, published in 2017 by Anchor.

Plot Summary

Princeton University’s Firestone Library is the home of a priceless treasure: the original manuscripts of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s five novels. A team of five thieves execute an audacious plan to steal the manuscripts and though they succeed, their victory is short-lived. Two team members are quickly arrested and Denny, the leader, is forced to sell the manuscripts to a rare book dealer for a mere half million dollars, far less than they are worth, before escaping to Panama.