Former secret agent Cotton Malone and Stephanie Nelle, a U.S. Justice Department prosecutor, must solve the mystery of fourteenth-century Templar riches and secrets before Raymond de Roquefort and his murderous allies prevail
Cotton MaloneSéries
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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L'énigme Alexandrie
- 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
- 558pages
- 20 heures de lecture
“[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
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La prophétie Charlemagne
- 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
- 597pages
- 21 heures de lecture
1821, île de Sainte-Hélène. Napoléon meurt en exil, emportant bien des secrets dans sa tombe. Durant ses années de conquête, il avait eu accès à des archives occultes, notamment celles du Vatican et des Chevaliers de Malte. En héritage, il laisse à son fils un ouvrage consacré aux royaumes mérovingiens. Pourquoi ? Que renferme ce livre si mystérieux ? Cotton Malone part sur la trace de l'un des secrets les mieux gardés de l'Empereur.
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The Emperor's Tomb
- 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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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
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Le Code Jefferson
- 605pages
- 22 heures de lecture
Lincoln (1809-1865), Garfield (1831-1881), McKinley (1843-1901) et Kennedy (1917-1963): quatre présidents américains, quatre assassinats a priori sans rapport, et pourtant... Afin de venir en aide à l'une de ses amies, Cotton Malone se rend aux Etats-Unis, sans se douter de ce qu'il est sur le point d'y découvrir : l'existence d'une société secrète, fondée lors de la Révolution américaine, adoubée par George Washington, et qui, depuis lors, n'a cessé ses mystérieuses activités. À l'origine du secret, et peut-être de l'assassinat de quatre présidents américains, les pages manquantes du rapport d'une intrigante séance du Sénat survenue en 1793. Des pages dissimulées dans un endroit dont les coordonnées sont cachées derrière le fameux, et inviolable, "Code Jefferson "...
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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.
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The Lincoln Myth
- 448pages
- 16 heures de lecture
September 1861: All is not as it seems. With these cryptic words, a shocking secret passed down from president to president comes to rest in the hands of Abraham Lincoln. And as the first bloody clashes of the Civil War unfold, Lincoln alone must decide how best to use this volatile knowledge: save thousands of American lives, or keep the young nation from being torn apart forever? The present: In Utah, the fabled remains of Mormon pioneers whose nineteenth-century expedition across the desert met with a murderous end have been uncovered. In Washington, D.C., the official investigation of an international entrepreneur, an elder in the Mormon church, has sparked a political battle between the White House and a powerful United States senator. In Denmark, a Justice Department agent, missing in action, has fallen into the hands of a dangerous zealot--a man driven by divine visions to make a prophet's words reality. And in a matter of a few short hours, Cotton Malone has gone from quietly selling books at his shop in Denmark to dodging bullets in a high-speed boat chase. All it takes is a phone call from his former boss in Washington, and suddenly the ex-agent is racing to rescue an informant carrying critical intelligence. It's just the kind of perilous business that Malone has been trying to leave behind, ever since he retired from the Justice Department. But once he draws enemy blood, Malone is plunged into a deadly conflict--a constitutional war secretly set in motion more than two hundred years ago by America's Founding Fathers. From the streets of Copenhagen to the catacombs of Salzburg to the rugged mountains of Utah, the grim specter of the Civil War looms as a dangerous conspiracy gathers power. Malone risks life, liberty, and his greatest love in a race for the truth about Abraham Lincoln--while the fate of the United States of America hangs in the balance
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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.
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The explosive new Cotton Malone thriller by the international bestseller Steve Berry.
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The Lost Order
- 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
- 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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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
- 557pages
- 20 heures de lecture
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The Kaiser's Web
- 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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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
- 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.
