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| 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.
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 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 (09/21/2009) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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  November 17, 2009 The latest Cotton Malone thriller is awinnerDanish billionaire Henrik Thorvaldsen obsesses over the terrorist incident in Mexico City that left seven dead including his son. He cannot move on as the brain behind the assault has remained free although he now knows who he is.
Henrik sends apparently fired Secret Service Agent Sam Collins to break into the Copenhagen bookstore owned by former United States Department of Justice (DOJ) operative Cotton Malone. The grieving Dane hopes to obtain Malone's cooperation to help bring down the killer Lord Ashby who has ties to a financial cartel the Paris Club planning an assault on the global economy for avaricous gains that the DOJ hopes to counter. The starting point in the plan is a plot to destroy a landmark that could kill hundreds; war is usury profitable for the finance community.
With terrific ties to Napoleon in Corsica and an exciting action packed story line, the latest Cotton Malone thriller (see The Charlemagne Pursuit) is a fun read. Filled with twists and over the top of the Eiffel Tower villains, fans will enjoy Malone's newest retirement caper mindful of War, Inc and If Looks Could Kill although not a satire. Malone teams up with a grieving angry father and a First Amendment conspiracy buff to thwart the latest capitalist plot to have the masses finance war with money and blood so the affluent can make outrageous profits.
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Was this review helpful? YesNo Report this reviewJune 03, 2010 An easy and great read and i recommend it to anyone who likes a little bit of history to get a thrilThe Paris Vendetta by Steve Berry - Book 5 in the Cotton Malone Series
This is Cotton Malone's fifth adventure: Once again, Steve Barry involves Henry Harold Earl (Cotton) Malone, former Justice Department agent and now a bookseller in Copenhagen.
The Book opens with the last days of Napoleon. As Napoleon enters The great Pyramid of Giza, he is given an oracle that deeply troubles him. In St Helena. Louis Etienne Saint-Dennis is his personal valet and confident. Saint Dennis inherits 400 books from Napoleon after his death--one of which is The Merovignian Kingdoms 450-471 AD.
Present time, Sam Collins, a CIA rookie agent enters Cotton Malone's bookstore and requests him to come aid his old and dear friend, Henrik Thorvaldsen.
As Sam and Cotton arrive to the Thorvaldsen estate, Henry has killed Armando Cabral and his associate. These people were responsible for Thorvaldsen's son, Cai, death in Mexico City because he was in love with a Mexican D. A., Elena Ramírez Rico--who had evidence against Lord Graham Ashby.
Ashby had lost a lot of money, but just managed to recover Rommel's Gold, a fortune lost in WWII worth about 100 million Euros. Ashby, who belongs to the Club Has had his mistress, Caroline Dodd, decipher the clues as they obtain The Merovignian Kingdoms 450-471 AD. They are going to share it with the Paris Club.
Elisa Laroque the head of The Paris Club, and has recruiting the richest and most influential men of the 21st century. She is a Corsican, just like Napoleon, and her ancestral family: starting with Pozzo Di Borgio. The Di Borgio's and the Bonaparte's fought each other and the Di Borgio's got the bad end of the deal. Since then, there is a Vendetta to avenge their name and take revenge on Napoleon. It deals with the loot left by Napoleon--which has never been found.
Thorvaldsen infiltrates the club and tells Elisa Laroque that he wants to join. He had Ashby bugged and says that he is a security leak. Elisa starts doubting Ashby when he keeps the The Merovignian Kingdoms 450-471 AD book from the club.
Danish billionaire Henrik Thorvaldsen, a friend of Malone's, has become consumed with finding out who masterminded the slaughter outside a Mexico City courthouse two years earlier that killed seven people, including his young diplomat son, Cai. Once he learns that a wealthy British aristocrat, Ashby, was behind the outrage, Thorvaldsen gets entangled in the Paris Club's conspiracy that involves an elite group of ruthless financial experts planning to destabilize the global economy, a terrorist plot to destroy a European landmark, The Tour Eiffel, with the Paris club inside; and a legendary cache hidden by Napoleon. Malone soon finds himself in a desperate struggle to save not only Thorvaldsen's life but the lives of countless innocents as well.
An easy and great read and i recommend it to anyone who likes a little bit of history to get a thrill out of his books. Was this review helpful? YesNo 7.5 hours on 6 compact discs. In like new condition. USA 32.00 new and Canada 39.00 new 
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