Steve Berry
Cotton Malone is back! Steve Berryâ€™s new international adventure blends gripping contemporary political intrigue, Tudor treachery, and high-octane thrills into one riveting novel of suspense., Â , 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 heâ€™s stumbled into a high-stakes diplomatic showdownâ€”an international incident fueled by geopolitical gamesmanship and shocking Tudor secrets., Â , At its heart is the Libyan terrorist convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103, who is set to be released by Scottish authorities for â€œhumanitarian reasons.â€ An outraged American government objects, but nothing can persuade the British to intervene., Â , Except, perhaps, Operation Kingâ€™s Deception., Â , Run by the CIA, the operation aims to solve a centuries-old mystery, one that could rock Great Britain to its royal foundations., Â , Blake Antrim, the CIA operative in charge of Kingâ€™s Deception, is hunting for the spark that could rekindle a most dangerous fire, the one thing that every Irish national has sought for generations: a legal reason why the English must leave Northern Ireland. The answer is a long-buried secret that calls into question the legitimacy of the entire forty-five-year reign of Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch, who completed the conquest of Ireland and seized much of its land. But Antrim also has a more personal agenda, a twisted game of revenge in which Gary is a pawn. With assassins, traitors, spies, and dangerous disciples of a secret society closing in, Malone is caught in a lethal bind. To save Gary he must play one treacherous player against anotherâ€”and only by uncovering the incredible truth can he hope to prevent the shattering consequences of the Kingâ€™s Deception.
Fiction,Thriller,Mystery,Historical,Historical Fiction,Adventure,Thriller,Mystery Thriller,Suspense,Action,Audiobook,Historical
The King's Deception