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Cotton Malone

Intraprendi un'emozionante avventura globale in cui storia, arte e segreti pericolosi si intrecciano. Segui un protagonista dal passato unico mentre svela complesse cospirazioni radicate nel passato. Ogni episodio promette un nuovo mistero e un inseguimento mozzafiato che metterà alla prova il suo intelletto e il suo coraggio. Sei pronto per un viaggio pieno di colpi di scena e rivelazioni storiche?

The King's Deception
Atlaský manévr
The Venetian Betrayal
The Paris Vendetta
The Emperor's Tomb
The Last Kingdom

Ordine di lettura consigliato

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    Cotton Malone, un ex agente operativo al servizio del Dipartimento di giustizia americano, si sta godendo la sua nuova vita a Copenaghen, dove gestisce una libreria antiquaria. Ma la tranquillità di un'esistenza appartata non è destinata a durare a lungo. Tutto comincia quando Cotton assiste a uno scippo ai danni del suo ex superiore, Stephanie Nelle, giunta in Danimarca per partecipare a un'asta di libri antichi. Cotton capisce subito che quella rapina non è casuale, anche perché il ladro muore subito dopo in circostanze misteriose. Malone allora segue Stephanie e scopre la ragione del viaggio della donna: acquistare un raro volume, che tuttavia la donna non riesce ad aggiudicarsi. A questo punto, Stephanie è costretta a rivelare a Malone la verità: sta seguendo una catena di indizi rinvenuti dal marito, uno studioso di esoterismo morto alcuni anni prima, e quel libro potrebbe essere la chiave per risolvere il mistero del paesino francese di Rennes-le-Chateau e, di conseguenza, del mitico tesoro scomparso dei Cavalieri Templari... But she’s not alone. Competing for the historic prize–and desperate for the crucial information Stephanie possesses–is Raymond de Roquefort, a shadowy zealot with an army of assassins at his command. Welcome or not, Cotton seeks to even the odds in the perilous race. But the more he learns about the ancient conspiracy surrounding the Knights Templar, the more he realizes that even more than lives are at stake. At the end of a lethal game of conquest, rife with intrigue, treachery, and craven lust for power, lies a shattering discovery that could rock the civilized world–and, in the wrong hands, bring it to its knees. From the Hardcover edition.

    L'ultima cospirazione
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    Cotton Malone's teenage son has been kidnapped, and an anonymous e-mail from those responsible proves they will stop at nothing to get their hands on a coveted prize: the legendary lost Library of Alexandria, which vanished 1,500 years ago.

    The Alexandria Link
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    “[Steve Berry] has a genuine feel for the factual gaps that give history its tantalizing air of the unknown.”—The New York Times Book Review After narrowly escaping incineration in a devastating fire that consumes a Danish museum, Cotton Malone—former Justice Department agent turned rare-book dealer—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 Great—in a tomb lost to the ages for more than two thousand years. Trekking from Denmark to Venice to Central Asia, Cotton and Cassiopeia are determined to solve an ancient puzzle whose solution could destroy or save millions of people—depending on who finds the lost tomb first. “There’s nothing tastier than a globe-spanning mystery. . . . Berry’s books excel at bringing out fascinating tidbits of history.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch

    The Venetian Betrayal
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    A mysterious manuscript discovered in the tomb of Charlemagne sends Cotton Malone on a perilous international quest that takes him and twin sisters with their own agenda from an ancient German cathedral to the harsh, unforgiving world of Antarctica in pursuit of the truth about the death of his father on a classified sub mission beneath Antarctica. 350,000 first printing.

    The Charlemagne Pursuit
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    Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone wakes to find an intruder in his Copenhagen bookshop: an American Secret Service agent with assassins on his heels. Narrowly surviving a ferocious firefight, the two journey to the secluded estate of Malone’s friend Henrik Thorvaldsen. The wily Danish tycoon has uncovered the insidious plans of the Paris Club, a cabal of multimillionaires bent on manipulating the global economy. But Thorvaldsen also harbors a hidden agenda—a vendetta—that will force Malone to choose between friend and country, past and present. Starting in Denmark, moving to England, and ending up in the storied streets and cathedrals of Paris, Malone is forced to match wits with a terrorist for hire and to plunge into a desperate hunt for Napoleon’s legendary treasure, lost for two hundred years. It’s a breathless game of duplicity and death, all to claim a prize of untold value. But at what cost? From the Paperback edition.

    The Paris Vendetta
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    The Emperor's Tomb

    • 436pagine
    • 16 ore di lettura

    Former government operative 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.

    The Emperor's Tomb
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    Kiedy w okolicy hotelu Grand Hyatt, w samym sercu Manhattanu, dochodzi do zuchwałego zamachu na życie prezydenta Danny'ego Danielsa, Malone podejmuje próbę udaremnienia spisku. Śledztwo prowadzi do niebezpiecznej konfrontacji ze korsarską Wspólnotą, tajnym bractwem piratów, które powstało za czasów amerykańskiej rewolucji. Razem z Cassiopeią Vitt, Malone przemierza Stany i wypływa na szerokie wody oceanów. W trakcie dochodzenia łamią sekretny szyfr używany przez Thomasa Jeffersona i ujawniają tajemnicę prezydenta Andrew Jacksona - stary dokument sporządzony przez Ojców Założycieli, który dzięki klauzuli konstytucji jest wystarczająco potężny, aby zapewnić bezkarność Wspólnocie. \Wciągający thriller Steva Berry'ego to doskonała mieszanka tajemnych szyfrów, polityki oraz faktów z historii Ameryki, która wciąga czytelnika już od pierwszej strony. Burzliwa akcja, pełna nagłych zwrotów i zawirowań, wyraziści bohaterowie i język, który każe zwracać czytelnikowi uwagę na każde słowo. To awanturnicza powieść, której nie można przegapić. Teen Ink

    KLUCZ JEFFERSONA WYD. 2
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    The Jefferson key

    • 480pagine
    • 17 ore di lettura

    Cotton Malone has been called on to defend his country's safety in many exotic locations around the world, often using his knowledge of history to get to the heart of mysteries and conspiracies stretching back for centuries. But never has the danger been quite so close to home. A stunning opening sets the tone of explosive action and mind-bending intrigue as Cotton battles an extraordinary group of families whose unseen influence dates back to the pages of the U.S. Constitution - and whose thirst for power is about to be satisfied by the cracking of a code devised by Thomas Jefferson himself.

    The Jefferson key
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    A behind-the-scenes political fight between the United States and England has the unintended result of landing Cotton Malone's son, Gary, in the hands of a man with a dangerous personal agenda. It also forces Malone to come face-to-face with a baffling historical mystery: a long-buried secret that throws into question the legitimacy of the entire reign of Elizabeth I - a revelation with explosive modern-day consequence.

    The King's Deception
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    The 16th Amendment to the Constitution legalized federal income tax, but what if there were problems with the 1913 ratification of that amendment? Problems that call into question decades of tax collecting, and could even bring down the US economy. There is a surprising truth to this possibility - a truth wholly entertained by Steve Berry, a top-ten New York Times bestselling writer, in his new thriller, The Patriot Threat. His protagonist, Cotton Malone, once a member of an elite intelligence division within the Justice Department known as the Magellan Billet, is now retired. But when his former-boss, Stephanie Nelle, asks him to track a rogue North Korean who may have acquired some top secret Treasury Department files-the kind that could bring the United States to its knees-Malone is vaulted into a harrowing twenty-four-hour chase that begins on the water in Venice and ends in the remote highlands of Croatia. With appearances by Franklin Roosevelt, Andrew Mellon, and a curious painting that still hangs in the National Gallery of Art, Steve Berry's trademark mix of history and suspense is 90% fact and 10% exciting speculation.

    The patriot threat
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    The Lost Order

    • 493pagine
    • 18 ore di lettura

    The Lost Order continues renowned New York Times bestseller Steve Berry’s Cotton Malone series with another riveting, history-based thriller.

    The Lost Order
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    The latest international thriller featuring Cotton Malone - one by one the seven precious relics of the Arma Christi, the weapons of Christ, are disappearing from sanctuaries across the world.

    The Warsaw Protocol
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    The Kaiser's Web

    • 400pagine
    • 14 ore di lettura

    In New York Times bestseller Steve Berry’s latest Cotton Malone adventure, a secret dossier from a World War II-era Soviet spy comes to light containing information that, if proven true, would not only rewrite history — it could impact Germany's upcoming national elections and forever alter the political landscape of Europe. Two candidates are vying to become Chancellor of Germany. One is a patriot having served for the past sixteen years, the other a usurper, stoking the flames of nationalistic hate. Both harbor secrets, but only one knows the truth about the other. They are on a collision course, all turning on the events of one fateful day — April 30, 1945 — and what happened deep beneath Berlin in the Fürherbunker. Did Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun die there? Did Martin Bormann, Hitler’s close confidant, manage to escape? And, even more important, where did billions in Nazi wealth disappear to in the waning days of World War II? The answers to these questions will determine who becomes the next Chancellor of Germany. From the mysterious Chilean lake district, to the dangerous mesas of South Africa, and finally into the secret vaults of Switzerland, former-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone discovers the truth about the fates of Hitler, Braun, and Bormann. Revelations that could not only transform Europe, but finally expose a mystery known as the Kaiser’s web.

    The Kaiser's Web
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    From celebrated New York Times bestselling author, Steve Berry, comes the latest Cotton Malone adventure, in which the discovery of a lost historical document challenges the global might of the United States. King Ludwig II of Bavaria was an enigmatic figure who was deposed in 1886, mysteriously drowning three days later. Eccentric to the point of madness, history tells us that in the years before he died Ludwig engaged in a worldwide search for a new kingdom, one separate, apart, and in lieu of Bavaria. A place he could retreat into and rule as he wished. But a question remains: did he succeed? Enter Cotton Malone. After many months, Malone's protégé, Luke Daniels, has managed to infiltrate a renegade group intent on winning Bavarian independence from Germany. Daniels has also managed to gain the trust of the prince of Bavaria, a frustrated second son intent on eliminating his brother, the duke, and restoring the Wittelsbach monarchy, only now with him as king. Everything hinges on a 19th century deed which proves that Ludwig's long-rumored search bore fruit - legal title to lands that Germany, China, and the United States all now want, only for vastly different reasons. In a race across Bavaria for clues hidden in Ludwig's three fairytale castles - Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee - Malone and Daniels battle an ever-growing list of deadly adversaries, all intent on finding the last kingdom.

    The Last Kingdom
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    Cotton Malone v ohnisku boje mezi CIA a nejstarší bankou na světě Koncem druhé světové války ukrylo Japonsko na Filipínách válečnou kořist známou jako Jamašitovo zlato. Část legendárního pokladu ale objevila americká vláda a tajně ho převezla do Švýcarska, kde ho ukryla do trezoru nejstarší světové banky. Ta ho chce teď využít k útoku na světové finanční systémy. Cotton Malone se neplánovaně ocitne uprostřed boje mezi CIA a bankou a zároveň zjistí, že jedna z aktérek dramatu byla součástí jeho minulosti. Rozhodně nehodlá nečinně přihlížet, ale do cesty, která vede až do marockého Atlasu, se mu staví zákeřné překážky a cena za jejich zdolání bude vysoká.

    Atlaský manévr