Steve Berry

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.

Escandinavia tiene una tradición cultural fuerte y específica que deriva de su conexión con la naturaleza y su pureza en la forma y en el contenido. Y el paisaje es el medio a través del cual podemos explicar de una manera coherente la relacion del hombre con su entorno. En Escandinavia, el paisaje natural ofrece una fuerte resistencia a ser transformado.

La Habitación de Ámbar es uno de los mayores tesoros creados por el hombre. Las tropas alemanas que invadieron la Unión Soviética se hicieron con ella en 1941. Cuando los Aliados comenzaron los bombardeos fue ocultada y se convirtio en un misterio que perdura hasta nuestros dias. A la juez Rachel Cutler le encantan su trabajo y sus hijos, y mantiene una relacion civilizada con su ex marido Paul. Todo cambia cuando su padre muere en misteriosas circunstancias, dejando pistas acerca de un secreto llamado la Habitacion de Ambar. Desesperada por descubrir la verdad, Rachel viaja a Alemania seguida de cerca por Paul. Enfrentados a asesinos profesionales en un juego traicionero, los dos chocan contra las fuerzas de la avaricia, el poder y la misma Historia.

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 from the New York Times bestselling author of THE ALEXANDRIA LINK.

Ex-agent Cotton Malone wants to know what really happened to his father, officially lost at sea when his submarine went down in the north Atlantic in 1971. But when he uses his government contacts to obtain the submarine''s sealed file, he finds he is not the only person looking for answers. Malone is in the line of fire when he is attacked in an attempt to take the file. He is pitched into a lethal power struggle between Dorothea Lindauer and Christl Falk, twin sisters whose twisted ambition takes sibling rivalry to new levels. Malone and the twins embark on a dangerous adventure involving Nazi explorations in Antarctica, US government conspiracies, and a series of cryptic historical clues built into the legend of Charlemagne. Forced to choose a side when neither can win, Malone is determined to uncover the truth behind his father''s death but will he be able to escape his own?

Cuando Napoleón murió en 1821, se llevó a la tumba un impactante secreto. Como emperador, había saqueado incalculables riquezas de palacios y tesoros nacionales, e incluso de los Caballeros de Malta y el Vaticano. En sus ultimos dias, sus captores britanicos esperaban averiguar donde se ocultaba el botin. Pero el no les desvelo nada. ¿O tal vez si? Cotton Malone esta a punto de averiguarlo cuando los problemas llaman a la puerta de su libreria: un agente del servicio estadounidense que terminara convirtiendose en su aliado. Solo igualando el ingenio de un terrorista a sueldo, frustrando un atentado catastrofico y emprendiendo una desesperada busqueda del legendario tesoro de Napoleon, podra Malone evitar la anarquia economica internacional.

For ex-field agent Cotton Malone the stakes have never been higher: a deadly virus that could wipe out civilisation as we know it and a cure that lies buried in the past. A secret international coalition has created a lethal biological weapon. Whoever develops the cure will control the future of global warfare. Yet that cure could already exist, buried centuries before with Alexander the Great. When Malone hears about it, he joins the hunt for Alexander''s long-lost tomb. His quest soon becomes a harrowing fight for truth that has unimaginable repercussions

Hot off his 'best book to date' (Booklist, starred review), Steve Berry offers his twistiest thriller yet, in a new adventure starring Cotton Malone and a secret conspiracy dating back to Napoleon

12.40 a.m. Copenhagen. Cotton Malone wakes up to find a stranger in his house, bearing bad news: Malone's closest and most dangerous friend, Henrik Thorvaldsen, is in serious trouble -- and the men who want to kill Thorvaldsen are on Malone's doorstep. Thorvaldsen has been tracking a shadowy group ... Show more 12.40 a.m. Copenhagen. Cotton Malone wakes up to find a stranger in his house, bearing bad news: Malone's closest and most dangerous friend, Henrik Thorvaldsen, is in serious trouble -- and the men who want to kill Thorvaldsen are on Malone's doorstep. Thorvaldsen has been tracking a shadowy group called the Paris Club. Not only does he believe that they are about to trigger a global financial meltdown, but also that one of the club's members murdered his son, Cai, two years ago. Thorvaldsen won't rest until he has avenged his boy's death. Dragged into his friend's schemes and secretly under pressure from the US government to stop both Thorvaldsen and the Paris Club, Malone soon discovers that the key to defeating the conspiracy and saving his friend's life -- and his own -- lies in the past, and an astounding treasure that Napoleon took to his grave.

12.40 a.m. Copenhagen. Cotton Malone wakes up to find a stranger in his house, bearing bad news: Malone's closest and most dangerous friend, Henrik Thorvaldsen, is in serious trouble -- and the men who want to kill him are on Malone's doorstep. Thorvaldsen has been tracking a shadowy group called the Paris Club. Not only does he believe that they are about to trigger a global financial meltdown, but also that one of the club's members murdered his son, Cai, two years ago. Thorvaldsen won't rest until he has avenged his boy's death. Dragged into his friend's schemes and secretly under pressure from the US government to stop both Thorvaldsen and the Paris Club, Malone soon discovers that the key to defeating the conspiracy and saving his friend's life -- and his own -- lies in the past, and an astounding treasure that Napoleon took to his grave.

What happens if both the president and vice-president-elect die before taking the oath of office? The answer is far from certain—in fact, what follows would be nothing short of total political chaos. Shot down over Siberia, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is forced into a fight for survival against Aleksandr Zorin, a man whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has festered for decades into an intense hatred of the United States. Before escaping, Malone learns that Zorin and another ex-KGB officer, this one a sleeper still embedded in the West, are headed overseas to Washington D.C. Noon on January 20th—Inauguration Day—is only hours away. A flaw in the Constitution, and an even more flawed presidential succession act, have opened the door to disaster and Zorin intends to exploit both weaknesses to their fullest. Armed with a weapon leftover from the Cold War, one long thought to be just a myth, Zorin plans to attack. He’s aided by a shocking secret hidden in the archives of America’s oldest fraternal organization—the Society of Cincinnati—a group that once lent out its military savvy to presidents, including helping to formulate three invasion plans of what was intended to be America’s 14th colony—Canada. In a race against the clock that starts in the frozen extremes of Russia and ultimately ends at the White House itself, Malone must not only battle Zorin, he must also confront a crippling fear that he’s long denied, but which now jeopardizes everything. Steve Berry’s trademark mix of history and speculation is all here in this provocative new thriller.

- Thriller histórico - Libro número 11 de la serie protagonizada por Cotton Malone

O livro é muito bom. Com um bom ritmo de acção onde paira sempre a intriga (que é deliciosa) e faz despertar a curiosidade no leitor. Na minha opinião, a ousadia do autor de manchar a reputação do ma

La poderosa orden medieval de los templarios poseía un conocimiento secreto que amenazaba los cimientos de la Iglesia y cuya revelación podría haber cambiado el rumbo de la Historia. Condenados por herejía, fueron aniquilados en el s. XIV. Cotton Malone, un ex agente secreto del gobierno norteamericano, se ve envuelto en una persecución contrarreloj para descifrar ese enigma que los templarios codificaron.

Ex-agent Cotton Malone wants to know what really happened to his father, officially lost at sea when his submarine went down in the north Atlantic in 1971. But when he uses his government contacts to obtain the submarine's sealed file, he finds he is not the only person looking for answers. Malone is in the line of fire when he is attacked in an attempt to take the file. He is pitched into a lethal power struggle between Dorothea Lindauer and Christl Falk, twin sisters whose twisted ambition takes sibling rivalry to new levels. Malone and the twins embark on a dangerous adventure involving Nazi explorations in Antarctica, US government conspiracies, and a series of cryptic historical clues built into the legend of Charlemagne. Forced to choose a side when neither can win, Malone is determined to uncover the truth behind his father's death -- but will he be able to escape his own?

Steve BerryIn 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 placeunknown to this dayremains a tantalizing goal for both archaeologists and treasure hunters. Now the quest for this coveted prize is about to heat up. And Cotton Maloneformer U.S. Justice Department agent turned rare-book dealerwill 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 historys 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 Greatin a tomb lost to the ages for more than 1,500 years. Together, Cotton andCassiopeia 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 peopledepending on who finds the lost tomb first.

Cuando Napoleón Bonaparte murió en el exilio, en 1821, se llevó a la tumba un impactante secreto. Como general y emperador había saqueado incalculables riquezas de palacios y tesoros nacionales, de los Caballeros de Malta y el Vaticano. En sus ultimos dias, sus captores britanicos esperaban averiguar donde se ocultaba el botin, pero el no les desvelo nada y en su testamento no mencionaba el tesoro. ¿O tal vez si? El ex agente del Departamento de Justicia Cotton Malone esta a punto de averiguarlo cuando los problemas llaman a la puerta de su libreria en Copenhague, o mas bien irrumpen en ella personificados en un agente del servicio secreto estadounidense al que persiguen dos asesinos. Malone alberga sus dudas sobre el ansioso joven, pero tras sobrevivir a un feroz tiroteo, accede a seguir a su nuevo e inesperado aliado. Su primera parada es la aislada fi nca de Henrik Thorvaldsen, un buen amigo de Malone. El astuto magnate danes ha descubierto los insidiosos planes del Club de Paris, un grupo de conspiradores multimillonarios decididos a manipular la economia global. Solo igualando el ingenio de un terrorista a sueldo, frustrando un atentado catastrofico y emprendiendo una desesperada busqueda del legendario tesoro perdido de Napoleon podra Malone evitar la anarquia economica internacional. Desde Dinamarca, pasando por Inglaterra y terminando en las historicas calles y catedrales de Paris, Malone participa en un intenso juego de duplicidad y muerte, todo para conseguir un tesoro de valor incalculable. Pero, ¿a que precio? Una vez mas, en El Club de Paris, Steve Berry nos demuestra que es capaz de sorprendernos con un thriller inteligente y trepidante, que lo confirma como un autor clave para cientos de miles de lectores en todo el mundo.