The Paris Vendetta by Steve Berry (2009, Abridged, Compact Disc)

Synopsis
Steve Berry brings fans another action-adventure in which greedy secret societies make grabs at riches and secrets long buried by history. This time the Paris Club, with its devilish eye on world economic domination--wants to get is multimillion-dollar hands on looted treasure that Napoleon Bonaparte stashed before his capture and death. Fortunately, former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone--who now contentedly runs a bookshop in Copenhagen--gets dragged out of retirement to put a stop to these dangerous machinations.

Key Details
Author:	Steve Berry
Language:	English
Publisher:	Random House
Series:	Cotton Malone
Format:	Audio
ISBN-10:	0739329162
ISBN-13:	9780739329160

Additional Details
Narrated by:	Scott Brick
Edition Description:	Abridged

Size
Thickness:	1.2 in
Weight:	6.4 oz

Publisher's Note
Awakened by a housebreaking stranger who is revealed to be a friend of Henrik Thorvaldsen and the father of a young man he once tried to save, Cotton Malone flees with the intruder when they are pursued by a shadowy organization that is hiding a dangerous Napoleon-era secret. By the author of The Charlemagne Pursuit. Simultaneous.

Awakened by a housebreaking stranger who is revealed to be a friend of Henrik Thorvaldsen and the father of a young man he once tried to save, Cotton Malone flees with the intruder when they are pursued by a shadowy organization.

When Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile in 1821, he took to the grave a powerful secret. As general and emperor, he had stolen immeasurable riches from palaces, national treasuries, and even the Knights of Malta and the Vatican. In his final days, his British captors hoped to learn where the loot lay hidden. But he told them nothing, and in his will he made no mention of the treasure. Or did he?

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. Malone has his doubts about the anxious young man, but narrowly surviving a ferocious firefight convinces him to follow his unexpected new ally.

Their first stop is the secluded estate of Malone's good friend, Henrik Thorvaldsen. The wily Danish tycoon has uncovered the insidious plans of the Paris Club, a cabal of multimillionaires bent on manipulating the global economy. Only by matching wits with a terrorist-for-hire, foiling a catastrophic attack, and plunging into a desperate hunt for Napoleon's legendary lost treasure can Malone hope to avert international financial anarchy.

But Thorvaldsen's real objective is much more personal: to avenge the murder of his son by the larcenous aristocrat at the heart of the conspiracy. Thorvaldsen's vendetta places Malone in an impossible quandary—one that forces him to choose between friend and country, past and present. Starting in Denmark, moving to England, and ending up in the storied streets and cathedrals of Paris, Malone plays a breathless game of duplicity and death, all to claim a prize of untold value. But at what cost?


From the Hardcover edition.

Industry Reviews
"Bestseller Berry deftly blends contemporary suspense and historical mystery in his fifth novel to feature...Cotton Malone...."
(09/21/2009)

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