Denny (Camino Island)

Denny is a character in John Grisham's novel titled Camino Island. Denny is a thief and murderer that engaged in a heist with four others.

Good Qualities

 * 1) He and his heist team had a stunningly clever and well-crafted plan to steal widely old manuscripts, and they nearly got away with it. If one of them hadn't bled on the scene they would be home free.
 * 2) In the audio-book version, January LaVoy portrays him very well.
 * 3) Denny will go at great measures to get what he wants, and though his methods are questionable he surely has an iron will.
 * 4) He is really good at intimidating people, and appears to get others to listen to him generally.
 * 5) He is mildly well fleshed out in personality, and is present in much of the beginning of the novel.
 * 6) He is somewhat memorable, if you like criminal characters. He is the most reoccurring criminal character in the book, and he keeps the plot interesting.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) It's hard to sympathize with a murderous criminal.
 * 2) He's not too present in the story compared to the main characters, and somehow becomes irrelevant later on.
 * 3) His arrest is abrupt and unsatisfactory; he didn't even get a concrete ending.
 * 4) Him and a friend intimidating lawyers is objectively a bad idea.
 * 5) His distrust for one of his companions led him to kill that ally of his. While it's a normal villain thing that's precisely why it's a weak character trait. It's generic for a villain to kill people just out of distrust and dislike.
 * 6) His scenes may have established tension and character in the novel, but it all became moot after his abrupt arrest.
 * 7) He ultimately is poorly written due to the fact that the whole book is poorly written. After getting a few scenes of him intimidating people he eventually ended up tossed out without a proper conclusion. He was the only tension giving aspect in the book, but after he was casually stated to be arrested the tension left the book.