Cotton Malone Séries

Embarquez pour une aventure mondiale passionnante où l'histoire, l'art et les secrets dangereux s'entremêlent. Suivez un protagoniste au passé unique alors qu'il démêle des conspirations complexes profondément ancrées dans le passé. Chaque volet promet un nouveau mystère et une course-poursuite haletante qui mettront à l'épreuve son intellect et son courage. Êtes-vous prêt pour un voyage plein de rebondissements et de révélations historiques ?

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The Templar Legacy
Steve Berry
460pages
17 heures de lecture
The ancient Knights Templar, once wielding immense wealth and power, vanished during the Inquisition, leaving their hidden treasures lost. Now, two factions competing for this treasure have uncovered its true nature, which could transform the modern world. Cotton Malone, a former U.S. Justice Department operative turned antiquarian book dealer in Copenhagen, is drawn back into a dangerous world when his former supervisor, Stephanie Nelle, is attacked during a mission unrelated to national security. She possesses vital clues to ancient puzzles across Europe, aiming to solve a mystery that has captivated scholars and treasure hunters for centuries: the legendary wealth and forbidden knowledge of the Templars, thought lost after their destruction in the fourteenth century. However, she faces competition from Raymond de Roquefort, a shadowy zealot commanding a ruthless army of assassins, who is desperate for the information Stephanie holds. Cotton, unwilling to remain on the sidelines, joins the fray, but as he delves deeper into the ancient conspiracy, he realizes that much more than lives are at stake. In this lethal race filled with intrigue and treachery, a shocking discovery awaits that could either save or doom the civilized world, depending on who wields it.
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L'énigme Alexandrie
Steve Berry
599pages
21 heures de lecture
50 avant J.-C.: la bibliothèque d'Alexandrie, qui renferme le savoir de toute l'humanité, disparaît aussi soudainement que mystérieusement. 1948, Palestine : Georges Haddad, fils d'un érudit et combattant palestinien, reçoit la visite d'un étrange individu porteur de secrets, un Gardien. 2007, Copenhague : Cotton Malone, retraité du département de Justice américain, pensait pouvoir profiter de sa boutique de livres anciens. Mais une mystérieuse organisation kidnappe son fils et lui donne 72 heures pour retrouver Georges Haddad. Malone doit, s'il veut sauver son fils, affronter tous les dangers pour retrouver Haddad, dont la connaissance des écrits disparus depuis plus de 2000 ans pourrait bien bouleverser la face du monde...
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The Venetian betrayal
Steve Berry
Cotton Malone is back and the stakes were never higher: a deadly virus that could wipe out civilisation as we know it - and a cure that lies buried in the past.
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La prophétie Charlemagne
Steve Berry
696pages
25 heures de lecture
An 1000, Aix-la-Chapelle. Otto III découvre dans le tombeau de Charlemagne un étrange manuscrit crypté. 1935, Allemagne. Mandaté par Himmler pour faire des recherches sur les racines de la langue allemande, l'expert Oberhauser découvre un ouvrage similaire. 2008. Afin de faire la lumière sur la mort mystérieuse de son père, Cotton Malone se penche sur l'énigme de ces deux manuscrits.--[Memento]
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Le mystère Napoléon
Danièle Mazingarbe
507pages
18 heures de lecture
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.
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The Emperor's Tomb
Steve Berry
436pages
16 heures de lecture
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.
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Le Code Jefferson
Steve Berry
592pages
21 heures de lecture
Quatre présidents américains ont été tués alors qu’ils occupaient les plus hautes fonctions, Lincoln (1865), Garfield (1881), McKinley (1901), et Kennedy (1963). Quatre assassinats a priori sans rapport aucun, et pourtant... De retour aux Éats-Unis, à la demande de Stephanie Nelle avec laquelle il a travaillé au sein des services secrets américains, Cotton Malone ne se doute pas qu’il est sur le point de faire l'une des découvertes les plus étonnantes de sa carrière : l’existence d’une société occulte, fondée lors de la Révolution américaine, adoubée par George Washington, et qui, depuis lors, n’a cessé ses mystérieuses activités. Au coeur du secret, et peut-être de l’assassinat des quatre présidents, deux pages manquantes dans les actes officiels, relatives à une énigmatique séance du Sénat américain en 1793. Pourquoi, en 1835, le président des États-Unis de l’époque a-t-il dissimulé ces fameuses pages dans une place tenue secrète, et dont les coordonnées sont cachées derrière le fameux Code Jefferson, réputé inviolable ? Lancé dans une course contre la montre, ne pouvant faire confiance à personne, Malone, aidé de Cassioppa Witt, va devoir élucider bon nombre de mystères et d’énigmes afin de déjouer une conspiration dont les ramifications s’étendent au coeur même de l’État Américain.
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The King's Deception
Steve Berry
Cotton Malone and his fifteen-year-old son, Gary, are headed to Europe. As a favor to his former boss at the Justice Department, Malone agrees to escort a teenage fugitive back to England. But after he is greeted at gunpoint in London, both the fugitive and Gary disappear, and Malone learns that he's stumbled into a high-stakes diplomatic showdown - an international incident fueled by geopolitical gamesmanship and shocking Tudor secrets
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The Lincoln Myth
Steve Berry
In September 1861, a shocking secret entrusted to Abraham Lincoln becomes pivotal as the Civil War begins. Faced with the choice to save thousands of lives or preserve national unity, Lincoln grapples with the weight of this volatile knowledge. In the present day, the remains of Mormon pioneers, victims of a tragic expedition, are discovered in Utah, igniting a political clash in Washington, D.C., involving a powerful senator and a Mormon elder under investigation. Meanwhile, a Justice Department agent in Denmark has gone missing, captured by a zealot intent on fulfilling prophetic visions. Cotton Malone, a former agent now running a bookstore, finds himself thrust into chaos after a call from his old boss. He must rescue an informant with crucial intelligence, a task he hoped to avoid after leaving the Justice Department. As he navigates a high-stakes chase, Malone enters a deadly conflict rooted in a conspiracy initiated by America's Founding Fathers over two centuries ago. From Copenhagen to Salzburg and the mountains of Utah, the shadow of the Civil War looms large as Malone races against time to uncover the truth about Lincoln, with the future of the nation hanging in the balance.
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The patriot threat
Steve Berry
464pages
17 heures de lecture
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.
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The 14th colony
Steve Berry
464pages
17 heures de lecture
The electrifying new Cotton Malone thriller by international bestseller Steve Berry. People say the Cold War is coming back. For some, it never went away. Shot down over Siberia in what was to be a simple meet-and-greet mission, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is forced into a fight for survival against Aleksandr Zorin, whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has festered for decades into an intense hatred of the United States. Before escaping, Malone learns that Zorin is headed for North America to join another long-term sleeper embedded in the West. Armed with a Soviet weapon long thought to be just a myth, Zorin is aided by a shocking secret hidden in the archives of America's oldest fraternal organization, the Society of Cincinnati. Past presidents used this group's military offensive - including advice on the invasion of what was to be America's 14th Colony - Canada. Inauguration Day for a new President of the U.S.A. is only hours away. Zorin's deadly plan is timed to bring about political chaos. In a race against the clock from Russia to the White House itself, Malone must not only battle Zorin, he must also confront his deepest fear, a crippling weakness that he's long denied but one that now jeopardizes everything. Steve Berry's trademark mix of fact, fiction, history and speculation is all here in this fast-paced and utterly compelling new thriller.
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The Lost Order
Steve Berry
493pages
18 heures de lecture
The Lost Order continues renowned New York Times bestseller Steve Berry’s Cotton Malone series with another riveting, history-based thriller.
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La conspiration Hoover
Steve Berry
493pages
18 heures de lecture
Le Double Eagle 1933 est une pièce d'or rarissime, inestimable. Mais en quoi peut-il bien intéresser le Ministère de la Justice Américain ? Engagé par ce dernier - et plus précisément la Division Magellan, sa branche secrète - à remonter ce trésor d'une épave cubaine, Cotton Malone ignore encore dans quel marécage il vient de plonger. Car ce qu'il remonte à la surface tire ses ramifications dans les plus sordides des coulisses du FBI. L'heure des règlements de comptes a sonné... De conspirations occultes en révélations explosives : Cotton Malone défie l'histoire officielle !
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The Malta Exchange
Steve Berry
416pages
15 heures de lecture
A deadly race for the Vatican's oldest secret fuels New York Times bestseller Steve Berry's latest international Cotton Malone thriller.
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Les saintes reliques
Steve Berry
557pages
20 heures de lecture
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The Kaiser's Web
Steve Berry
400pages
14 heures de lecture
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.
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The Last Kingdom
Steve Berry
464pages
17 heures de lecture
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.
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Atlaský manévr
Steve Berry
440pages
16 heures de lecture
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.
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