The Paris Vendetta by Steve BerryMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
With the 5th novel in the Cotton Malone Series, the author has written another well-crafted book, where he skillfully blends modern day suspense and historical mystery, featuring Cotton Malone, ex-member of the Magellan Billet, now living a quite life as a bookstore owner in Copenhagen. I love the fact that Malone has a love for books………just like me!!! And he has something I would have loved to have owned……his very own bookstore!!!
This story focuses primarily on Malone’s friend and mentor, Henrik Thorvaldsen, who has discovered who the person responsible for the tragic death of his beloved son, and is bent on destroying him.
To do this, he becomes a member of the secret and dangerous Paris Club, a cabal of some of the richest people in the planet, who plan to destabilize the global economy, destroying famous landmarks and causing world chaos, thus gaining more power and riches. This gets him closer to his son’s killer, who is also a member of the club.
Malone is in a race against time, as he tries not only to discover the truth of what Henrik has told him but also trying to keep him from being killed. .
The historical part of the plot is about Napoleon Bonaparte
that starts with him conquering Cairo and ends with his exile in St. Helene.
We are given bits of real history interwoven with the WHAT IF?
Napoleon had stolen many treasures on his “conquering” trips but until his death in 1821, had never revealed the locations where they were hidden. But did he tell his secret to someone in his last days?
A member of the Paris Club believes that the treasure exists
she has inherited books and documents supposedly written by Napoleon, and she will do anything to discover it. Not only is she in the race to find the legendary treasure, but others as well.
The history presented is really fascinating and I really want to know more ….…in fact, after I finished this book, I did look up a lot of information on Napoleon. I loved this quote of his
We follow Malone on a breathless journey of treachery, deception, death and surprise that takes us to Denmark, London and Paris and along the way, we see characters we have met before like Stephanie Nelle, Malone’s ex boss at Magellan Billet and the new character, Ross Collins, FBI agent on the run and helping Henrik. I hope he plays a part in the next books.
The history that this author incorporates into the story is really impressive and one can see the amazing research he did.
Another quote which I thought fitted well in with the Paris Club cabal’s greediness and hunger for power -
A great thriller that pulled me in from the very beginning and with the most surprising and the unexpected twist at the end that left me kind of reeling!!!!!
A really amazing book in this series.
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