History notes that the ugly feud between J. Edgar Hoover
and Martin Luther King, Jr., marked by years of illegal
surveillance and the accumulation of secret files, ended
on April 4, 1968 when King was assassinated by James Earl
Ray. But that may not have been the case.
Now, fifty years later, former Justice Department agent,
Cotton Malone, must reckon with the truth of what really
happened that fateful day in Memphis.
It all turns on an incident from eighteen years ago, when
Malone, as a young Navy lawyer, is trying hard not to
live up to his burgeoning reputation as a maverick. When
Stephanie Nelle, a high-level Justice Department lawyer,
enlists him to help with an investigation, he jumps at
the opportunity. But he soon discovers that two opposing
forces—the Justice Department and the FBI—are at war over
a rare coin and a cadre of secret files containing
explosive revelations about the King assassination,
information that could ruin innocent lives and threaten
the legacy of the civil rights movement’s greatest
martyr.
Malone’s decision to see it through to the end —— from
the raucous bars of Mexico, to the clear waters of the
Dry Tortugas, and ultimately into the halls of power
within Washington D.C. itself —— not only changes his own
life, but the course of history.
Steve Berry always mines the lost riches of history —— in
The Bishop's Pawn he imagines a gripping, provocative
thriller about an American icon, just in time for April
2018 and the 50th anniversary of the assassination.
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