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Thrilling Mysteries with a Historical Twist - Steve Berry
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items Steve Berry is a former lawyer with a passion for history. All of his books are modern day fiction with a historical twist, from Russian Czars to our Founding Fathers and everything in between.
Sections
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Cotton Malone Series
Cassiopeia Vitt Adventure Books
Luke Daniels
Stand Alone Novels
Short Stories/Anthologies
Cotton Malone Series
The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition. In the present day, multiple factions are seeking to find that cache of wealth.
The Templar Legacy - Cotton Malone #1
Someone thinks Cotton has something they want... and they threaten his son to get it.
The Alexandria Link - Cotton Malone #2
After narrowly escaping a a devastating blaze at a Danish Museum, Cotton learns that it was no accident. Taken on a global trip looking for the tomb of Alexander the Great, will Cotton be able to stop a cabal of shady power brokers?
The Venetian Betrayal - Cotton Malone #3
Inspired but strange clues in Charlemagne's tomb, Nazis explored Antarctica before the Americans. But what does this have to do with the death of Cotton's father on a secret nuclear submarine?
The Charlemagne Pursuit - Cotton Malone #4
Malone is forced to match wits with a terrorist for hire and to plunge into a desperate hunt for Napoleon’s legendary treasure, lost for two hundred years.
The Paris Vendetta - Cotton Malone #5
The tomb of China’s First Emperor, guarded by an underground army of terra-cotta warriors, which has inexplicably remained sealed for more than two thousand years—its mysteries about to be revealed.
The Emperor's Tomb - Cotton Malone #6
A short story that's a prequel to the next book in the Series - The Jefferson Key. A printed copy of this Novella is available in the paperback version of The Jefferson Key.
The Devil's Gold - Cotton Malone Novella
Four presidents of the United States have been assassinated—in 1865, 1881, 1901, and 1963—each murder seemingly unrelated. But what if those presidents were all killed for the shocking same reason: a clause contained in the United States Constitution...
The Jefferson Key - Cotton Malone #7
In England to participate in the trial of suspected international terrorists, Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is mysteriously summoned to an audience with the Queen of England. This Novella is included in the printed version of The King's Dece...
The Tudor Plot: A Cotton Malone Novella (eBook)
Malone learns that he’s stumbled into a high-stakes diplomatic showdown—an international incident fueled by geopolitical gamesmanship and shocking Tudor secrets. (Includes Tudor Plot Novella)
The King's Deception - Cotton Malone #8
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 timely—not only in Malone’s world, but in ours
The Lincoln Myth - Cotton Malone #9
The Patriot Threat, finds Cotton Malone racing to stop a rogue ex-KGB agent plotting revenge against the United States.
The Patriot Threat - Cotton Malone #10
What happens if both the president and vice-president-elect die before taking the oath of office? The answer is far from certain--in fact, what follows would be nothing short of total political chaos.
The 14th Colony - Cotton Malone #11
The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It amassed billions in stolen gold and silver, all buried in hidden caches across the United States. Since 1865 treasure hunters have se...
The Lost Order - Cotton Malone #12
The ugly feud between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, Jr. ended in April 1968 when King was assassinated--according to "official" history. Now, 50 years later, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone comes face to face with what really ...
The Bishop's Pawn - Cotton Malone #13
The pope is dead. A conclave to select his replacement is about to begin. Cardinals are beginning to arrive at the Vatican, but one has fled Rome for Malta in search of a document that dates back to the 4th century and Constantine the Great
The Malta Exchange - Cotton Malone #14
One by one the seven precious relics of the Arma Christi, the weapons of Christ, are disappearing from sanctuaries across the world.
The Warsaw Protocol - Cotton Malone #15 (Signed Book!)
A secret dossier from a World War II-era Soviet spy comes to light containing information that, if proven true, would not only rewrite history — it could impact Germany's upcoming national elections and forever alter the political landscape of Europe...
The Kaiser's Web - Cotton Malone #16
The discovery of a lost historical document challenges the global might of the United States. Race across Bavaria with Cotton Malone
The Last Kingdom - Cotton Malone #17
Cotton unravels a mystery from World War II involving a legendary lost treasure, worth billions, known as Yamashita's Gold.
The Atlas Maneuver - Cotton Malone #18
Cotton Malone is on the hunt for a forgotten 16th century Pledge of Christ—a sworn promise made by Pope Julius II that evidences a monetary debt owed by the Vatican, still valid after five centuries—now worth in the trillions of dollars.
The Medici Return - Coming Feb 11, 2025!
Cassiopeia Vitt Adventure Books
A collection of short stories featuring Cassiopeia Vitt, Cotton's on again off again love interest. Co-authored with M.J. Rose
A printed copy of this story appears inside the mass market edition of The Emperor’s Tomb. This is the first of five e-book original adventures featuring Cassiopeia Vitt
The Balkan Escape: A Cassiopeia Vitt Adventure #1
In the French mountain village of Eze, Cassiopeia visits an old friend who owns and operates the fabled Museum of Mysteries, a secretive place of the odd and arcane. When a robbery occurs at the museum, Cassiopeia gives chase to the thief and is plun...
The Museum of Mysteries: A Cassiopeia Vitt Adventure #2
For over a decade Cassiopeia Vitt has been building an authentic French castle, using only materials and techniques from the 13th century. But when a treasure is unearthed at the construction site-an ancient Book of Hours-a multitude of questions are...
The Lake of Learning: A Cassiopeia Vitt Adventure #3
The time has come for Cassiopeia Vitt to sell her ancestral home. It sits on a Spanish bluff by the Mediterranean Sea, and bears the name Casa de Hace Mucho Tiempo, House of Long Ago.
The House of Long Ago: A Cassiopeia Vitt Adventure #4
Tragedy has found Cassiopeia Vitt. The woman she admires most, Esmerelda Fontana, has been brutally murdered. Then Cassiopeia's castle rebuilding project is viciously attacked and people are hurt. Are the two incidents related?
The End of Forever: A Cassiopeia Vitt Adventure #5
Luke Daniels
A new series with a new hero. Co-Authored with Grant Blackwood, this new series will keep you wanting more!
A thrilling, action-packed historical adventure that sends Luke Daniels on an international manhunt for the truth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The 9th Man - Luke Daniels #1
In the waning days of the Cold War, Luke Daniels embarks on a quest in search of the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible--the unlikely key to ending a looming threat orbiting two hundred miles above the earth.
Red Star Falling - Luke Daniels #2
Stand Alone Novels
Still a blend of thrilling mystery and history, Steve Berry ventures outside the Cotton Malone world
Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler loves her job and her kids, but her life takes a dark turn when her father dies under strange circumstances, leaving behind clues to a secret about one of the greatest treasures ever made by man. Forged of the exquisite ge...
The Amber Room
After the fall of Communism and a succession of weak governments, the Russian people have voted to bring back the monarchy. The new tsar will be chosen from the distant relatives of Nicholas II by a specially appointed commission, and Miles’ job is t...
The Romanov Prophecy
Steve Berry tackles some of the most controversial ideas of our time in a breakneck journey through the history of the Church and the future of religion.
The Third Secret
What if everything we know about the discovery of America was a lie? What if that lie was designed to hide the secret of why Columbus sailed in 1492? And what if that 500-year-old secret could violently reshape the modern political world? (Includes p...
The Columbus Affair
From the tranquil canals of Ghent, to the towering bastions of Carcassonne, and finally into an ancient abbey high in the French Pyrenees, Nick Lee must confront a modern-day religious crusade intent on eliminating a shocking truth from humanity’s pa...
The Omega Factor
Short Stories/Anthologies
Can't get enough of Cotton Malone and Cassiopeia Vitt? Check out these eBooks with more thrilling stories
In this short story from the thrilling anthology FaceOff, New York Times bestselling authors Steve Berry and James Rollins—along with their popular characters Cotton Malone and Gray Pierce—team up for the first time ever.
The Devil's Bones: Cotton Malone vs. Gray Pierce (eBook)
In this short story from the thrilling anthology MatchUp, bestselling authors Diana Gabaldon and Steve Berry—along with their popular series characters Jamie Fraser and Cotton Malone—team up for the first time ever.
Past Prologue (eBook)
In this alternate-history-with-a-twist Thriller Short, Steve Berry explores one of Cotton Malone’s early missions, from a time when Malone was still employed as one of the Magellan Billet’s twelve agents.
The Devils' Due (eBook)
Includes three Cotton Malone short stories: The Balkan Escape, The Devil's Gold, and The Admiral's Mark
Three Tales from the World of Cotton Malone (eBook)