Steve Berry has continued the story of Cotton Malone, a former justice department operative who runs a bookstore in Copenhagen. Cotton is awakened by an intruder who turns out to be a young secret service computer analyst who is convinced that there is a conspiracy to control the economy of the world. His boss at the agency ridiculed his ideas but Henrik Thorvaldsen contacts Sam for his help.
Henrik sends Sam to Cotton for help. Henrik is still seeking the man who orchestrated the murder of his son. He discovered the man who ordered that action. To flush him out, he needs to be invited to join the Paris Club. The Paris Club in an invitation only club which contains some of the richest men in the world. The plan is to manipulate the economies of the world to make themselves richer. Nothing will be allowed to stop them.
Lord Ashby has been invited to join the Paris Club but he doesn't have access to the amount of cash that membership requires. He is searching for the location of Rommel's gold and the elusive treasure that Napoleon was rumored to have hidden.
As Cotton and Sam search Paris for the information they need, Henrik will approach the founder of the Paris Club, Eliza Larocque to join the Club.
Henrik thirst for revenge will lead them all into danger with some unintended consequences.
Steve Berry writes an action-packed adventure with characters who spring to life as you read.. His stories move the reader around the world in a hearbeat. He moves between the past and present with a facile grace. If you haven't followed the adventures of Cotton Malone, this is a good place to start. The violence is balanced with the emotion he elicits from his readers.
I highly recommend this author if you crave an adrenaline rush. You will be swept away as you follow the adventures of Cotton and his friends.
The only thing rarer than the vintage editions Cotton Malone sells in his Copenhagen bookshop is the time he actually gets to spend there. Retirement has been anything but relaxing for the onetime U.S. government operative, who’s been drawn into one perilous adventure after another, crisscrossing the globe from the Sinai Desert to Antarctica, while racing to uncover some of the most precious secrets in recorded history. Back home in Denmark, Malone’s barely had a chance to rest and regroup after his last high-risk mission when trouble comes knocking again. Actually, it breaks and enters–in the form of an American Secret Service agent with a pair of would-be assassins on his heels. Malone has his doubts about the anxious young man, but narrowly surviving a ferocious firefight convinces Malone to follow his unexpected new ally into the night–and into another all-too-close encounter with certain danger. Their first stop is the secluded country estate of Malone’s good friend Henrik Thorvaldsen. The wily Danish tycoon’s eyes and ears around the world have uncovered the insidious plans of the Paris Club, a cabal of multimillionaires out to manipulate the global economy. Only by matching wits with a murderous terrorist-for-hire, foiling a catastrophic attack, and plunging into a desperate hunt for the legendary lost treasure of Napoleon Bonaparte can Malone hope to avert international financial anarchy. But Thorvaldsen’s objective is much more personal: to avenge at any cost the murder of his beloved son by the larcenous aristocrat at the heart of the conspiracy. Through the storied streets and cathedrals of Paris, a breathless game of duplicity and death will be played, all to claim a prize of untold value–or to suffer consequences of unthinkable magnitude.
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