The Lincoln Myth (Cotton Malone #9) (Steve Berry)

• Author: Steve Berry

Condition & Size

• Size: Large
• Book Type: Paperback
• CAI Condition Score: 6/10.
• CAI Condition Description: Good
• Observations: Name on front page

About This Book

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 timelynot only in Malone's world, but in ours._x000D_\n_x000D_\nSeptember 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?_x000D_\n_x000D_\nIn 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 zealota 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._x000D_\n_x000D_\nAll 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 nemy blood, Malone is plunged into a deadly conflicta constitutional war secretly set in motion more than two hundred years ago by America's Founding Fathers._x000D_\n_x000D_\nFrom 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 Lincolnwhile the fate of the United States of America hangs in the balance