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Literature & Fiction

The Venetian Betrayal (Cotton Malone)

The Venetian Betrayal (Cotton Malone)

â€œ[Steve Berry] has a genuine feel for the factual gaps that give history its tantalizing air of the unknown.â€â€”The New York Times Book Review

After narrowly escaping incineration in a devastating fire that consumes a Danish museum, Cotton Maloneâ€”former Justice Department agent turned rare-book dealerâ€”learns from his friend, the beguiling adventurer Cassiopeia Vitt, that the blaze was neither an accident nor an isolated incident. As part of a campaign of arson intended to mask a far more diabolical design, buildings across Europe are being devoured by infernos of unnatural strength. Born from the ashes is a new Eastern European nation whose ruthless leader will soon draw Cotton into an intense geopolitical chess game against a shadowy cabal of power brokers. The prize lies buried with the mummified remains of Alexander the Greatâ€”in a tomb lost to the ages forÂ more than two thousand years. Trekking from DenmarkÂ
to Venice to Central Asia, Cotton and Cassiopeia areÂ determined to solve an ancient puzzle whose solutionÂ
could destroy or save millions of peopleâ€”depending on who finds the lost tomb first.

â€œThereâ€™s nothing tastier than a globe-spanning mystery. . . . Berryâ€™s books excel at bringing out fascinating tidbitsÂ of history.â€ â€”Richmond Times-Dispatch

Country	USA
Brand	Ballantine Books
Manufacturer	Ballantine Books
Binding	Mass Market Paperback
PartNumber	9780345485786
Color	Multicolor
Height	7.4
Length	4.19
Weight	2.314853751
Width	1.29
ReleaseDate	2008-11-18
NumberOfItems	1

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