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The Charlemagne Pursuit by Steve Berry
In this bestselling thriller, ex–Justice Department agent Cotton Malone, in Germany on business, searches for answers about the death of his father, Capt. Forrest Malone. Even before he has had time to read the classified account of his fathers death, someone tries to steal the folder, and the chase is on. His father, instead of dying in 1971 in a nuclear sub accident in the North Atlantic, as he had always believed, actually died while on a secret submarine mission to the Antarctic. On the other side of the Atlantic, Adm. Langford Ramsey schemes to become the next ranking officer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, making sure that those that know the secrets of the Antarctica mission are no longer in a position to tell. The body count begins to mounts, on both sides of the Atlantic. Malone and his collaborators take off to Antarctica, where they are in a race to find the lost city that once was the home of an advanced race, from the dawn of our own history.
This book has plenty of mysteries, mixed in with non stop action, well thought out characters’, nasty plots from the Nazis, manuscripts from the ancient and medieval periods, puzzles to solve and historical figures such as Charlemagne to keep the reader engrossed. For those who enjoyed the Da Vinci Code this is one for you . |
