Steve Berry, Ballantine, $26 (464p) ISBN 978-0-345-50549-1
Cotton Malone teams with old heartthrob Cassiopeia Vitt on a dangerous mission to retrieve a priceless Chinese lamp from the third century B.C.E. in Berry's rousing fifth thriller to feature the ex-federal agent (after The Paris Vendetta). Two high-r
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Steve Berry, Author Ballantine Books $24.95 (373p) ISBN 978-0-345-46005-9
With this second Russian suspense novel, which focuses on the restoration of the Romanov dynasty, Berry shows he's honed his craft since his somewhat shaky debut, The Amber Room (2003). Miles Lord, a workaholic African-American lawyer from Atlanta,...
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Steve Berry, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-345-46003-5
First-time novelist Berry weighs in with a hefty thriller that's long on interesting research but short on thrills. Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler and ex-husband Paul are divorced but still care for each other. Rachel's father, Karol Borya,...
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Steve Berry. Ballantine, $27 (448p) ISBN 978-0-345-52651-9
This engrossing stand-alone thriller from bestseller Berry (The Third Secret) assumes the premise that Columbus was a Jew, Christoval Arnoldo de Ysassi, forced to convert to Christianity, and that aboard his ships were sacred artifacts rescued from...
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Steve Berry. Ballantine, $27 (432p) ISBN 978-0-345-52654-0
In bestseller Berry’s tepid eighth Cotton Malone thriller (after 2011’s The Jefferson Key), the ex–secret agent agrees to escort a juvenile thief in CIA custody, 15-year-old Ian Dunne, to England, as a favor to his former boss, Stephanie Nelle....
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Steve Berry. Ballantine, $26 (480p) ISBN 978-0-345-50551-4
At the start of Berry's ingeniously plotted seventh Cotton Malone novel (after The Emperor's Tomb), former U.S. Justice Department agent Malone, who's been summoned to New York City by his old boss, Stephanie Nelle, manages to thwart an attempt to...
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Steve Berry. Ballantine, $27 (448p) ISBN 978-0-345-52657-1
Bestseller Berry’s 10th Cotton Malone thriller (after 2013’s e-book novella The Tudor Plot) provides startling new perspectives on the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and Abraham Lincoln’s decision to fight the Civil War. At play is a secret...
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Steve Berry. Minotaur, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-05623-8
Bestseller Berry comes up with a highly unusual premise for his 10th Cotton Malone thriller (after 2014’s The Lincoln Myth): a historical flaw in the U.S. income tax code has the potential to destroy the country’s economy. In Berry’s timely what-if...
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Steve Berry. Minotaur, $27.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-250-05624-5
Bestseller Berry’s 11th Cotton Malone thriller (after 2015’s The Patriot Threat) offers a clever variation on the theme of racing against the clock to avert national disaster. In 1982 in Vatican City, Ronald Reagan and John Paul II have a private...
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Steve Berry. Minotaur, $28.99 hardcover (512p) ISBN 978-1-250-05625-2
In the 12th thriller featuring former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone (after 2016’s The 14th Colony), Berry delivers exactly what fans of this bestselling series have come to expect—an intricately plotted, action-paced story line that...
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Steve Berry. Minotaur, $28.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-21017-3
Bestseller Berry’s enthralling 14th Cotton Malone novel (after 2018’s The Bishop’s Pawn) finds former U.S. Justice Department operative Malone on a freelance assignment to retrieve long-lost correspondence between Benito Mussolini and Winston...
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Steve Berry, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-345-47613-5
Visions of the Virgin Mary, secret documents and politicking in the highest echelons of the Catholic Church—Berry (The Amber Room
) combines combustive elements in this well-researched thriller. In 1917, the Virgin Mary revealed herself to...
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Steve Berry, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-345-47615-9
Berry goes gnostic in this well-tooled Da Vinci Code
-knockoff, his fourth novel (The Romanov Prophecy
). Ex-U.S. Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is intrigued when he sees a purse snatcher fling himself from a Copenhagen tower to avoid...
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Steve Berry, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (473p) ISBN 978-0-345-48577-9
In bestseller Berry's predictable third novel to feature Cotton Malone (after The Alexandria Link
and The Templar Legacy
), Malone takes on another villain bent on world domination, Irina Zovastina, supreme minister of the Central Asian...
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Steve Berry, Author . Ballantine $26 (509p) ISBN 978-0-345-48579-3
In bestseller Berry's fourth thriller to feature ex–Justice Department agent Cotton Malone (after The Venetian Betrayal
), Malone embarks on a search for answers about his father, Capt. Forrest Malone, after learning that instead of dying
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Steve Berry, Author . Ballantine $26 (418p) ISBN 978-0-345-50547-7
Bestseller Berry deftly blends contemporary suspense and historical mystery in his fifth novel to feature former U.S. Justice Department operative Cotton Malone (after The Charlemagne Pursuit
). Danish billionaire Henrik Thorvaldsen, a friend of...
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Steve Berry, Author Ballantine $25.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-345-48575-5
At the start of bestseller Berry's second thriller to feature Cotton Malone (after The Templar Legacy), Malone, a former employee of the covert branch of the U.S. Justice Department, is trying to lead a secluded life as a bookseller in Copenhagen....
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Steve Berry, Author, Scott Brick, Read by , read by Scott Brick. Random House Audio $49.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-5894-8
Scott Brick continues to bolster his status as one of the best narrators of international thrillers with his excellent reading of Berry's latest. Once again, Cotton Malone, a retired intelligence officer turned rare book dealer, is thrown into...
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Steve Berry, Author, Scott Brick, Read by , read by Scott Brick. Random House Audio $49.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-6943-2
In his fourth adventure, Copenhagen bookseller (and former U.S. government agent) Cotton Malone seeks the truth about his father, the commander of an experimental submarine that vanished in 1971. His quest makes him a target of the murderously...
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Steve Berry, read by Scott Brick. Random House Audio, 11 CDs, 13.5 hrs., $50 ISBN 978-0-449-00900-0
In Berry’s contemporary thriller, when series hero Cotton Malone goes to England with his teenage son, Gary, he gets entwined in a bizarre CIA operation involving a secret that dates back to the time of the Tudors. Along the way, Malone must deal...
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Steve Berry, Author, Brian Corrigan, Read by , read by Brian Corrigan. Random House Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-3201-6
There are times when Corrigan attempts the French accent of this book's arch-villain, Raymond de Roquefort, that he sounds like nothing so much as Peter Sellers's Inspector Clouseau with a bad head cold. Corrigan gamely tackles what so many...
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Edited by David Baldacci. Simon & Schuster, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4767-6206-7
A clever concept distinguishes this anthology sponsored by the International Thriller Writers. Each of the 11 stories pairs well-known series characters created by different authors, sometimes in adversarial but more often in collegial ways, and...
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Edited by Lee Child. Simon & Schuster, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-1-5011-4159-1
Each of the 11 collaborative tales in this stellar sequel to the International Thriller Writers’ anthology FaceOff (2014) pairs a top-rank female thriller writer with a male counterpart. Sandra Brown’s Lee Coburn and C.J. Box’s Joe Pickett send...
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Steve Berry. Minotaur, $28.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-14022-7
Bestseller Berry’s 13th thriller featuring U.S. government operative Cotton Malone (after 2017’s The Lost Order) is an effective conspiracy yarn centered on Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. In the present, Malone has a secret meeting in...
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Steve Berry. Minotaur, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-14030-2
With his 15th Cotton Malone novel (after 2019’s The Malta Exchange), bestseller Berry once again shows there’s no working author more skilled at combining thrilling adventure with engrossing historical detail. Ex-operative Malone is in Bruges,...
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Steve Berry. Minotaur, $28.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-250-14034-0
At the start of bestseller Berry’s thrilling 16th Cotton Malone novel (after 2020’s The Warsaw Protocol), former U.S. president Danny Daniels travels to Bavaria at the request of Marie Eisenhuth, the pro-American German chancellor. In a police...
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Steve Berry. Grand Central, $29 (464p) ISBN 978-1-5387-2094-3
This lively standalone from bestseller Berry (the Cotton Malone series) centers on a panel stolen in 1934 from the Ghent Altarpiece, “one of the world’s great works of art, created in the early part of the fifteenth century, at the threshold of the...
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Steve Berry. Grand Central, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-1-5387-2099-8
In bestseller Berry’s high-octane 17th novel featuring Cotton Malone (after 2021’s The Kaiser’s Web), Malone, a former intelligence officer who worked 12 years with the Magellan Billet, a covert Justice Department unit, and is now living in Denmark,
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Steve Berry. Grand Central, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-1-538721-03-2
Bestseller Berry never takes his foot off the gas in the hyperactive 18th thriller featuring Cotton Malone (after The Last Kingdom). After ostensibly retiring from his chaotic life as a top-secret U.S. intelligence operative to run a sleepy bookshop
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Steve Berry and Grant Blackwood. Grand Central, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-1-5387-2111-7
The second entry in Berry and Blackwood’s Luke Daniels series (after The 9th Man) is a paint-by-numbers disappointment. Daniels, fresh off a secret mission for the justice department, is approached by the CIA with intriguing news: John Vince,...
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