Cotton Malone had a case eighteen years ago that is coming
back to
haunt him and force him to make a history-changing decision.
The
history of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the FBI is well
known. The FBI
watched and tracked his every move. They even had people on the
inside of his group who collected data to use against him.
Cotton is as always in the middle of trouble, getting shot
at and having
things blow up. THE BISHOP'S
PAWN is an exciting story that leads to upper-level
members of the
government and high-ranking members of Martin Luther King's
group.
The ending is shocking and really makes you question history
and
wonder if it's possible that something like this, maybe
without all the
shooting and things blowing up, could have happened. To
reveal more
would be to give away the story, so I will not be doing it.
Steve Berry's character Cotton Malone is taken back in time
to his
beginning with Stephanie Nelle. Many years ago, Cotton's
first case
was chasing down a very rare coin and it leads to secret FBI
files, MLK,
friends of MLK and their families. Being Cotton's first case
with
Stephanie, it's clear that Cotton was always going to run
his own game
as he felt best. THE BISHOP'S
PAWN is a look back in history that has you on the edge
of your
chair reading. Once again Steve Berry has taken history
looked at what
is possible and written it down very well, making it
exciting for the
reader. No way you read one of his books and don't google
events from
that time frame. Lovers of history, thrillers, and mysteries
will love THE BISHOP'S PAWN.
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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