The Admiral's Mark
(Cotton Malone #0.5)
Eight
years ago Cotton Malone was an agent for the Justice Department, handling the
toughest and most sensitive international investigations. But sometimes things
became intensely personal. In his latest eBook original short story, New York
Times bestselling author Steve Berry lays out just such a tale—one with
shocking historical implications.
Cotton Malone never cared for the shady dealings of his brother-in-law,
Scott Brown. But when Scott dies while scuba diving, Cotton’s wife and her
grieving sister demand more than just a secondhand police report. So Malone
heads to Haiti. There, beneath crystal clear waters, he learns that Scott found
the sunken wreckage of the Santa Maria, the fabled flagship of Christopher
Columbus, and he paid for the discovery with his life. Setting out to piece
together what happened, Malone quickly realizes that he’s not the only man
there with questions. An Israeli intelligence agent is in top secret pursuit of
what Scott died trying to protect. And a sinister Austrian with a hidden agenda
has no qualms about killing for the mysterious prize. On the hunt for something
that has been lost for 500 years, Malone is suddenly enmeshed in a deadly cat
and mouse game being played across the north shore of Haiti and beneath the
Caribbean Sea—and he’ll have to fight just to get out of there alive.
The Templar Legacy
(Cotton Malone #1)
The
ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power
over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the
face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the
treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it was-and its
true nature could change the modern world.
Cotton
Malone, one-time top operative for the U.S. Justice Department, is enjoying his
quiet new life as an antiquarian book dealer in Copenhagen when an unexpected
call to action reawakens his hair-trigger instincts-and plunges him back into
the cloak-and-dagger world he thought he'd left behind.
It begins
with a violent robbery attempt on Cotton's former supervisor, Stephanie Nelle,
who's far from home on a mission that has nothing to do with national security.
Armed with vital clues to a series of centuries-old puzzles scattered across
Europe, she means to crack a mystery that has tantalized scholars and
fortune-hunters through the ages by finding the legendary cache of wealth and
forbidden knowledge thought to have been lost forever when the order of the
Knights Templar was exterminated in the fourteenth century. But she's not alone.
Competing for the historic prize-and desperate for the crucial information
Stephanie possesses-is Raymond de Roquefort, a shadowy zealot with an army of
assassins at his command.
Welcome or not, Cotton seeks to even the odds in the perilous race. But the
more he learns about the ancient conspiracy surrounding the Knights Templar,
the more he realizes that even more than lives are at stake. At the end of a
lethal game of conquest, rife with intrigue, treachery, and craven lust for
power, lies a shattering discovery that could rock the civilized world-and, in
the wrong hands, bring it to its knees. "From the Hardcover edition."
The Alexandria Link
(Cotton Malone #2)
BONUS:
This edition contains an excerpt from Steve Berry’s The Emperor’s Tomb and a
Cotton Malone dossier.
Cotton
Malone retired from the high-risk world of elite operatives for the U.S.
Justice Department to lead the low-key life of a rare-book dealer. But his
quiet existence is shattered when he receives an anonymous e-mail: “You have
something I want. You’ re the only person on earth who knows where to find it.
Go get it. You have 72 hours. If I don’t hear from you, you will be childless.”
His horrified ex-wife confirms that the threat is real: Their teenage son has
been kidnapped. When Malone’s Copenhagen bookshop is burned to the ground, it
becomes brutally clear that those responsible will stop at nothing to get what
they want. And what they want is nothing less than the lost Library of
Alexandria.
A cradle
of ideas–historical, philosophical, literary, scientific, and religious–the
Library of Alexandria was unparalleled in the world. But fifteen hundred years
ago, it vanished into the mists of myth and legend–its vast bounty of wisdom
coveted ever since by scholars, fortune hunters, and those who believe its
untold secrets hold the key to ultimate power.
Now a
cartel of wealthy international moguls, bent on altering the course of history,
is desperate to breach the library’s hallowed halls–and only Malone possesses
the information they need to succeed. At stake is an explosive ancient document
with the potential not only to change the destiny of the Middle East but to
shake the world’s three major religions to their very foundations.
Pursued by a lethal mercenary, Malone crosses the globe in search of
answers. His quest will lead him to England and Portugal, even to the highest
levels of American government–and the shattering outcome, deep in the Sinai
desert, will have worldwide repercussions.
The Venetian Betrayal
(Cotton Malone #3)
BONUS: This
edition contains an excerpt from Steve Berry’s The Emperor’s Tomb and a Cotton
Malone dossier.
In 323
B.C.E, having conquered Persia, Alexander the Great set his sights on Arabia,
then suddenly succumbed to a strange fever. Locating his final resting place–unknown
to this day–remains a tantalizing goal for both archaeologists and treasure
hunters. Now the quest for this coveted prize is about to heat up. And Cotton
Malone–former U.S. Justice Department agent turned rare-book dealer–will be
drawn into an intense geopolitical chess game.
After
narrowly escaping incineration in a devastating fire that consumes a Danish
museum, Cotton learns from his friend, the beguiling adventurer Cassiopeia
Vitt, that the blaze was neither an accident nor an isolated incident. As part
of campaign of arson intended to mask a far more diabolical design, buildings
across Europe are being devoured by infernos of unnatural strength.
And from
the ashes of the U.S.S.R., a new nation has arisen: Former Soviet republics
have consolidated into the Central Asian Federation. At its helm is Supreme
Minister Irina Zovastina, a cunning despot with a talent for politics, a taste
for blood sport, and the single-minded desire to surpass Alexander the Great as
history’s ultimate conqueror.
Backed by
a secret cabal of powerbrokers, the Federation has amassed a harrowing arsenal
of biological weapons. Equipped with the hellish power to decimate other
nations at will, only one thing keeps Zovastina from setting in motion her
death march of domination: a miraculous healing serum, kept secret by an
ancient puzzle and buried with the mummified remains of Alexander the Great–in
a tomb lost to the ages for more than 1,500 years.
Together, Cotton and Cassiopeia must outrun and outthink the forces
allied against them. Their perilous quest will take them to the shores of
Denmark, deep into the venerated monuments of Venice, and finally high inside
the desolate Pamir mountains of Central Asia to unravel a riddle whose solution
could destroy or save millions of people–depending on who finds the lost tomb
first.
The Charlemagne Pursuit
(Cotton Malone #4)
BONUS:
This edition contains an excerpt from Steve Berry’s The Emperor’s Tomb and a
Cotton Malone dossier.
As a
child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told his father died
in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic, but now he wants the full story
and asks his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, to secure the military files. What he
learns stuns him: His father’s sub was a secret nuclear vessel lost on a highly
classified mission beneath the ice shelves of Antarctica.
But
Malone isn’t the only one after the truth.
Twin
sisters Dorothea Lindauer and Christl Falk are fighting for the fortune their
mother has promised to whichever of them discovers what really became of their
father–who died on the same submarine that Malone’s father captained.
The
sisters know something Malone doesn’t: Inspired by strange clues discovered in
Charlemagne’ s tomb, the Nazis explored Antarctica before the Americans, as
long ago as 1938. Now Malone discovers that cryptic journals penned in “the
language of heaven,” inscrutable conundrums posed by an ancient historian, and
the ill-fated voyage of his father are all tied to a revelation of immense
consequence for humankind.
In an effort to ensure that this explosive information never rises to
the surface, Langford Ramsey, an ambitious navy admiral, has begun a brutal
game of treachery, blackmail, and assassination. As Malone embarks on a
dangerous quest with the sisters–one that leads them from an ancient German
cathedral to a snowy French citadel to the unforgiving ice of Antarctica–he
will finally confront the shocking truth of his father’s death and the distinct
possibility of his own.
The Paris Vendetta
(Cotton Malone #5)
When
Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile in 1821, he took to the grave a powerful
secret. As general and emperor, he had stolen immeasurable riches from palaces,
national treasuries, and even the Knights of Malta and the Vatican. In his
final days, his British captors hoped to learn where the loot lay hidden. But
he told them nothing, and in his will he made no mention of the treasure. Or
did he?
Former
Justice Department operative Cotton Malone isn't looking for trouble when it
comes knocking at his Copenhagen bookshop. Actually, it breaks and enters in
the form of an American Secret Service agent with a pair of assassins on his
heels. Malone has his doubts about the anxious young man, but narrowly
surviving a ferocious firefight convinces him to follow his unexpected new
ally.
Their
first stop is the secluded estate of Malone's good friend, Henrik Thorvaldsen.
The wily Danish tycoon has uncovered the insidious plans of the Paris Club, a
cabal of multimillionaires bent on manipulating the global economy. Only by
matching wits with a terrorist-for-hire, foiling a catastrophic attack, and
plunging into a desperate hunt for Napoleon's legendary lost treasure can
Malone hope to avert international financial anarchy.
But Thorvaldsen's real objective is much more personal: to avenge the
murder of his son by the larcenous aristocrat at the heart of the conspiracy.
Thorvaldsen's vendetta places Malone in an impossible quandary—one that forces
him to choose between friend and country, past and present. Starting in
Denmark, moving to England, and ending up in the storied streets and cathedrals
of Paris, Malone plays a breathless game of duplicity and death, all to claim a
prize of untold value. But at what cost?
The Balkan Escape
(Cotton Malone #5.5)
Steve
Berry's first ever eBook exclusive short story finds an adventurer in a strange
and forbidding land, in search of a long lost treasure, and very much in harm's
way.
As a
favor to enigmatic billionaire Henrik Thorvaldsen, Cassiopeia Vitt treks into
Bulgaria's Rila mountains in search of a buried stash of exceedingly rare
artifacts from a bygone civilization: the ancient tomb of a Thracian king. But
when her presence is discovered by a shadowy group of Russians secretly mining
the area, she needs a way out. Who to trust becomes the question, and her life
depends on choosing the right option.
Includes a sneak-preview of the Cotton Malone thrillers The Emperor's
Tomb and The Columbus Affair.
The Emperor's Tomb
(Cotton Malone #6)
The tomb
of China’s First Emperor, guarded by an underground army of terra-cotta
warriors, has remained sealed for more than 2,000 years. Though it’s regarded
as one of the greatest archaeological sites in the world, the Chinese
government won’t allow anyone to open it. Why?
The Devil's Gold
(Cotton Malone #6.5)
The New
York Times bestselling author of The Jefferson Key brings you a short story
that takes readers on a perilous hunt for . . . The Devil's Gold
Once he
was called the Sphinx, a man so inscrutable that neither his adversaries nor
fellow intelligence operatives could predict his next move. Now a contract
agent with a secret mission, Jonathan Wyatt has gone rogue. For eight years
he’s been plotting. Waiting. Scheming to kill Federal agents Christopher Combs
and Cotton Malone, whom he blames for the loss of his career. But as Wyatt
prepares for a final confrontation in a remote South American village, he makes
a discovery that stretches back to the horrors of World War II, to the
astounding secret of a child’s birth, to Martin Bormann and Eva Braun—and to a
fortune in lost gold.
BONUS: Includes excerpts from Steve Berry's The Jefferson Key and The
Columbus Affair.
The Jefferson Key
(Cotton Malone #7)
Four
United States presidents have been assassinated—in 1865, 1881, 1901, and
1963—each murder seemingly unrelated and separated by time.
Except,
perhaps, Operation King’s Deception.
Run by
the CIA, the operation aims to solve a centuries-old mystery, one that could
rock Great Britain to its royal foundations.
Blake
Antrim, the CIA operative in charge of King’s Deception, is hunting for the
spark that could rekindle a most dangerous fire, the one thing that every Irish
national has sought for generations: a legal reason why the English must leave
Northern Ireland. The answer is a long-buried secret that calls into question
the legitimacy of the entire forty-five-year reign of Elizabeth I, the last
Tudor monarch, who completed the conquest of Ireland and seized much of its
land. But Antrim also has a more personal agenda, a twisted game of revenge in
which Gary is a pawn. With assassins, traitors, spies, and dangerous disciples
of a secret society closing in, Malone is caught in a lethal bind. To save Gary
he must play one treacherous player against another—and only by uncovering the
incredible truth can he hope to prevent the shattering consequences of the
King’s Deception.
But what
if those presidents were all killed for the same reason: a clause in the United
States Constitution—contained within Article 1, Section 8—that would shock
Americans?
This question is what faces former Justice Department operative Cotton
Malone in his latest adventure. When a
bold assassination attempt is made against President Danny Daniels in the heart
of Manhattan, Malone risks his life to foil the killing—only to find himself at
dangerous odds with the Commonwealth, a secret society of pirates first
assembled during the American Revolution. In their most perilous exploit yet,
Malone and Cassiopeia Vitt race across the nation and take to the high seas.
Along the way they break a secret cipher originally possessed by Thomas
Jefferson, unravel a mystery concocted by Andrew Jackson, and unearth a
centuries-old document forged by the Founding Fathers themselves, one powerful
enough—thanks to that clause in the Constitution—to make the Commonwealth
unstoppable.
The Tudor Plot
(Cotton Malone #7.5)
In this
original eBook novella by the New York Times bestselling author of The King’s
Deception, globetrotting intelligence agent Cotton Malone is lured into
dangerous intrigue surrounding the world’s most famous royals—and uncovers a
murderous conspiracy of terrorists and traitors, all born from an ancient tale
of Saxon history.
“In Malone, [Steve] Berry has created a
classic, complex hero.”—USA Today
In England to participate in the trial of suspected international
terrorists, Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is mysteriously summoned to
an audience with the Queen of England. A cryptic call has warned of looming
danger to the ailing queen’s son and grandson—the next two heirs in line for
the throne. And when the source of that ominous information, a notorious
tabloid publisher, dies mysteriously, the royal family has reason to fear a
genuine conspiracy. But they also suspect that the enemy lies within—and no one
at Buckingham Palace, or even the nation’s own Secret Intelligence Service, can
be trusted. Now it’s up to Malone to discover the truth. Matching wits with a
power-mad politician and a vicious royal blue blood, he must race against time
through the streets of London to the forbidden reaches of Iceland, all to stop
a monstrous plot to seize the monarchy—one that stretches back to the time of
Arthur.
The King's Deception
(Cotton Malone #8)
Cotton
Malone is back! Steve Berry’s new international adventure blends gripping
contemporary political intrigue, Tudor treachery, and high-octane thrills into
one riveting novel of suspense.
Cotton Malone
and his fifteen-year-old son, Gary, are headed to Europe. As a favor to his
former boss at the Justice Department, Malone agrees to escort a teenage
fugitive back to England. But after he is greeted at gunpoint in London, both
the fugitive and Gary disappear, and Malone learns that he’s stumbled into a
high-stakes diplomatic showdown—an international incident fueled by
geopolitical gamesmanship and shocking Tudor secrets.
At its heart is the Libyan terrorist convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight
103, who is set to be released by Scottish authorities for “humanitarian
reasons.” An outraged American government objects, but nothing can persuade the
British to intervene.
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