Malone's expertise varies from being trained in espionage, hand-to-hand combat, and firearms. He is also an experience pilot. Berry wanted to make Malone human with flaws. His marriage failed and has a difficult relationship with his teenage son. They are rarely mention in every novel in the series, but his relationship with his girlfriend with Cassiopeia Vitt has its own set of complications. In the novels, they are never referred as a couple, but it is implied that their feelings are strong for each other.
Cassiopeia lives in France and also is contracted by Stephanie Nelle for covert jobs not sanction by the U. S government. Cotton Malone is a character post Many novels in the genre that Steve Berry's writes in have that main character that is the hero, the character that saves the day and sometimes is flawless.
It seems that most of these authors used Ian Fleming's James Bond [5] as their inspiration but definitely did made their characters unique. Malone is not a ladies' man like James Bond and is not wearing a suit and driving fancy cars, but the character has some similarities, working alone and being in situations that are either life or death. Steve Berry's novels are in the genre of Thriller and Suspense. He is a fan of history and loves fabricating a story into a nonfictional historic event.
Steve Berry is a fan of books like the Da Vinci Code of finding hidden treasures of the past and historic events that could have led the US and the world in a different direction. Locating Alexander the Great's final resting place… More. Shelve The Venetian Betrayal. Book 4. The Charlemagne Pursuit by Steve Berry.
As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton… More. Shelve The Charlemagne Pursuit. Book 5. The Paris Vendetta by Steve Berry. When Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile in , he … More. Shelve The Paris Vendetta. The Balkan Escape by Steve Berry. Steve Berry's first ever eBook exclusive short sto… More.
Shelve The Balkan Escape. Book 6. The Emperor's Tomb by Steve Berry. Shelve The Emperor's Tomb. The Devil's Gold by Steve Berry. Shelve The Devil's Gold. Book 7. The Jefferson Key by Steve Berry. Cotton Malone retired from the high-risk world of elite operatives for the U. Justice Department to lead the low-key life of a rare-book dealer.
Go get it. You have 72 hours. And what they want is nothing less than the lost Library of Alexandria. A cradle of ideas—historical, philosophical, literary, scientific, and religious—the Library of Alexandria was unparalleled in the world.
But fifteen hundred years ago, it vanished into the mists of myth and legend—its vast bounty of wisdom coveted ever since by scholars, fortune hunters, and those who believe its untold secrets hold the key to ultimate power. Pursued by a lethal mercenary, Malone crosses the globe in search of answers.
His quest will lead him to England and Portugal, even to the highest levels of American government—and the shattering outcome, deep in the Sinai desert, will have worldwide repercussions. The Templar Legacy. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it was—and its true nature could change the modern world. Cotton Malone, one-time top operative for the U.
Armed with vital clues to a series of centuries-old puzzles scattered across Europe, she means to crack a mystery that has tantalized scholars and fortune-hunters through the ages by finding the legendary cache of wealth and forbidden knowledge thought to have been lost forever when the order of the Knights Templar was exterminated in the fourteenth century. 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.
The implications of this prophecy are earth-shattering — not only for the future tsar and mother Russia, but for Miles himself. Tom Sagan is staring down the barrel of a gun — literally. He has lost everything he ever loved: his job, his wife, his daughter, his reputation. And — what hurts most — he knows the story which ruined his career as a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist was a set-up, a trap. But he can never prove it. They — whoever they are — have beaten him.
Her postgraduate research into Christopher Columbus has put Alle in touch with Zachariah Simon, a supremely wealthy man with a powerful interest in both Columbus and Tom Sagan. What is the connection between the Sagan family and the man who ushered in a new age when he sailed for the Americas in ?
To find out, Tom must embark on his own journey of discovery, and enter a world of danger and betrayal, of history and deadly conspiracy. Rachel Cutler loves her job and her kids, and remains civil to her ex-husband, Paul. But everything changes when her father dies under suspicious circumstances, leaving behind clues to a treasure called the Amber Room, one of the most intriguing mysteries of the last century. Desperate for the truth, Rachel takes off for Germany, with Paul close behind.
Locked into a treacherous game with professional killers, Rachel and Paul find themselves on a collision course with the forces of greed, power and history itself…. With the twelfth in the Cotton Malone series The Lost Order publishing in April, we go right back to the start with this handy guide to all things Steve Berry. The Cotton Malone series The Templar Legacy The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power, until the Inquisition destroyed them and their riches were lost forever.
The Alexandria Link A hidden treasure. A forgotten truth. The Venetian Betrayal For ex-field agent Cotton Malone the stakes have never been higher: a deadly virus that could wipe out civilisation as we know it — and a cure that lies buried in the past.
His quest soon becomes a harrowing fight for truth that has unimaginable repercussions… The Charlemagne Pursuit Ex-agent Cotton Malone wants to know what really happened to his father, officially lost at sea when his submarine went down in the north Atlantic in The Paris Vendetta And a shocking revelation. The Lincoln Myth September All is not as it seems.
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