By Steve Berry
Meet Cotton Malone—a former top operative for the U.S. Justice Department. He’s enjoying his quiet new life as a rare-book dealer, but despite his austere existence, he manages, from time to time, to find himself immersed in serious trouble while hunting for ancient artifacts or while embroiled in some of history’s oldest unsolved mysteries.
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Description: Cotton Malone, one-time top operative for the U.S. Justice Department, is enjoying his quiet new life as an antiquarian book dealer in Copenhagen when an unexpected call to action reawakens his hair-trigger instincts–and plunges him back into the cloak-and-dagger world he thought he’d left behind.
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Description: Cotton Malone retired from the high-risk world of elite operatives for the U.S. Justice Department to lead the low-key life of a rare-book dealer. But his quiet existence is shattered when he receives an anonymous e-mail: “You have something I want. You’re the only person on earth who knows where to find it. Go get it. You have 72 hours.
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Description: After narrowly escaping incineration in a devastating fire that consumes a Danish museum, Cotton learns from his friend, the beguiling adventurer Cassiopeia Vitt, that the blaze was neither an accident nor an isolated incident.
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Description: As a child, Cotton Malone was told his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic, but now he wants the full story. What he learns stuns him: His father’s sub was a secret nuclear vessel lost on a highly classified mission beneath the ice shelves of Antarctica…
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Description: Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone isn’t looking for trouble when it comes knocking at his Copenhagen bookshop. Actually, it breaks and enters in the form of an American Secret Service agent with a pair of assassins on his heels.
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Description: Cotton is trying to get his life back to normal when he clicks onto a website where he sees a live video of Cassiopeia Vitt, a woman who has saved his life more than once, being tortured for something in her possession.
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Description: Cotton Malone finds himself at the center of a plot to assassinate the President of the United States.
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Description: 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 hes stumbled into a high-stakes diplomatic showdown.
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Description: A Cotton Malone adventure involving a flaw in the United States Constitution, a mystery about Abraham Lincoln, and a political issue that’s as explosive as it is timely – not only in Malone’s world, but in ours.
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Description: Cotton Malone is now retired and owns an old bookshop in Denmark. 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,Malone is vaulted into a harrowing twenty-four hour chase.