There is a secret from our history - 500 years old - startling in its revelations and devastating in its political impact. A secret that has, thankfully, stayed hidden. Until now.Former Justice Department agent, Cotton Malone, travels to England and finds himself caught in a dark conspiracy born long ago, in the time of the Tudors.Now both the CIA and MI6 seem to be competing to uncover the mystery and, for Malone, supposedly on holiday with his son, Gary, it's not just the action which comes thick and fast. When Gary disappears, Malone is forced into a race against time, as he battles to decipher a puzzle that leads him from the Middle Temple to the chapel at Windsor Castle, from an Oxford college to the sewers beneath Hampton Court.With assassins, traitors, spies, and dangerous disciples of a secret society closing in, Malone discovers that the solution to the mystery will not only draw him into a lethal trap, but force him closer to his own troubling past. And a shocking revelation.
There is a secret from our history - 500 years old - startling in its revelations and devastating in its political impact. A secret that has, thankfully, stayed hidden. Until now.Former Justice Department agent, Cotton Malone, travels to England and finds himself caught in a dark conspiracy born long ago, in the time of the Tudors.Now both the CIA and MI6 seem to be competing to uncover the mystery and, for Malone, supposedly on holiday with his son, Gary, it's not just the action which comes thick and fast. When Gary disappears, Malone is forced into a race against time, as he battles to decipher a puzzle that leads him from the Middle Temple to the chapel at Windsor Castle, from an Oxford college to the sewers beneath Hampton Court.With assassins, traitors, spies, and dangerous disciples of a secret society closing in, Malone discovers that the solution to the mystery will not only draw him into a lethal trap, but force him closer to his own troubling past. And a shocking revelation.
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'Berry raises this genre's stakes' -- New York Times 'As always with Steve Berry, you're educated about significant things while your knuckles are turning white and the pages are flying by' -- David Baldacci 'I love this guy' -- Lee Child 'Steve Berry writes with the self-assured style of a veteran' -- Dan Brown
'Berry raises this genre's stakes' -- New York Times 'As always with Steve Berry, you're educated about significant things while your knuckles are turning white and the pages are flying by' -- David Baldacci 'I love this guy' -- Lee Child 'Steve Berry writes with the self-assured style of a veteran' -- Dan Brown
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Hodder & Stoughton General Division
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4447-4082-0 (9781444740820)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Steve Berry lives in Florida, USA. He is the New York Times and number one internationally bestselling author of eight Cotton Malone adventures, four standalone novels and four short stories. He has 15 million books in print, translated into forty languages and published in fifty-one countries. Visit his website at www.steveberry.org.
Steve Berry lives in Florida, USA. He is the New York Times and number one internationally bestselling author of eight Cotton Malone adventures, four standalone novels and four short stories. He has 15 million books in print, translated into forty languages and published in fifty-one countries. Visit his website at www.steveberry.org.
