The Malta Exchange
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Steve Berry. (2019). The Malta Exchange. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Steve Berry. 2019. The Malta Exchange. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Steve Berry, The Malta Exchange. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2019.

Steve Berry. The Malta Exchange. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2019.

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     Steve Berry is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cotton Malone novels (The Bishop's Pawn, The Malta Exchange), among other books, and several works of short fiction. He has 25 million books in print, translated into 40 languages.
     With his wife, Elizabeth, he is the founder of History Matters, which is dedicated to historical preservation. He serves as an emeritus member of the Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board and was a founding member of International Thriller Writers, formerly serving as its co-president.

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A deadly race for the Vatican's oldest secret fuels New York Times bestseller Steve Berry's next international Cotton Malone thriller: The Malta Exchange.

"Berry is the master scientist with a perfect formula." — Associated Press
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.
Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is at Lake Como, Italy, on the trail of legendary letters between Winston Churchill and Benito Mussolini that disappeared in 1945 and could re-write history. But someone else seems to be after the same letters and, when Malone obtains then loses them, he's plunged into a hunt that draws the attention of the legendary Knights of Malta.
The knights have existed for over nine hundred years, the only warrior-monks to survive into modern times. Now they are a global humanitarian organization, but within their ranks lurks trouble — the Secreti — an ancient sect intent on affecting the coming papal conclave. With the help of Magellan Billet agent Luke Daniels, Malone races the rogue cardinal, the knights, the Secreti, and the clock to find what has been lost for centuries. The final confrontation culminates behind the walls of the Vatican where the election of the next pope hangs in the balance.

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   • source: Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
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     "Enthralling . . . Fans of Dan Brown will have fun, and some may even prefer Berry's action-oriented hero to Brown's cerebral Robert Langdon."

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   • source: Library Journal, starred review
   • content: "Berry has the lock on making history zing with breathless suspense and galloping action. Malta and the Vatican are superb settings for this ecclesiastical extravaganza."
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   • source: Kirkus Reviews
   • content: "The intrigue is intense . . . . Thriller fans will have their violence fix, but the real fun is in learning about the inner workings of the church, its history dating all the way back to Constantine, and the troubled past of Malta . . . . This one will appeal to Dan Brown fans and anyone else in the mood for a page-turning yarn."
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   • source: Booklist
   • content: "[Berry] really is very good at the historical-conspiracy thriller; he's a skilled writer--much more so than Dan Brown, to whom he's often compared--and a more dexterous plotter than many of his contemporaries. Fans of the Malone series will give this one an enthusiastic thumbs-up."
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   • source: Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
   • content: "Berry again produces a novel that at once entertains and also raises deep and disturbing questions."
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     January 15, 2019
     Religion and murder meet in Malta and Rome in this 14th entry in the author's Cotton Malone series (The Bishop's Pawn, 2018, etc.).The pope has died, and His Eminence Kastor Cardinal Gallo schemes to get the job. Unfortunately, he is "radioactive" in the church, even "proclaimed a threat to all the faithful." Oh, and he only fakes his religious belief. All he wants is power, and he will kill for it. His identical twin brother, Pollux, is a Knight of Malta but not a priest and certainly not his brother's keeper. Meanwhile, series hero Cotton Malone is on a special freelance assignment from Britain's MI6, looking for rumored secret correspondence between Churchill and Mussolini. And former Army Ranger Luke Daniels trails Kastor, who is from Malta, where much of the story takes place. Cotton finds a mysterious ring engraved with a Maltese cross and a five-word palindrome that's spelled out a tad too often. Perhaps a secret lies in the engraved words. He also uncovers documents hidden by Mussolini and looks for what's hidden in an obelisk in Rome. The intrigue is intense as Kastor and a few goons will stoop to murder to abet his rise to the most powerful post in the Catholic Church. Thriller fans will have their violence fix, but the real fun is in learning about the inner workings of the church, its history dating all the way back to Constantine, and the troubled past of Malta. Cynicism about Christianity abounds; why else would Simon Wiesenthal have said that the Vatican has the best spy service in the world? Popes Pius XI and XII never stood up to the fascists, and perhaps heaven, hell, and the Holy Trinity were invented in the third century merely to differentiate Christianity from Judaism. Cotton is highly capable--"Failure was not his style," meaning he fits in well among the can-do American heroes in the genre. But Kastor and Pollux are the conniving hypocrites who really pop off the pages.This one will appeal to Dan Brown fans and anyone else in the mood for a page-turning yarn.

     COPYRIGHT(2019) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     February 1, 2019
     The latest Cotton Malone thriller begins with the assassination of Benito Mussolini and then jumps forward several decades to the present day, where Malone, a former field agent for the U.S. Department of Justice who gets into life-threatening situations with startling regularity, is hot on the trail of some letters allegedly exchanged between Mussolini and Winston Churchill. As he tends to do, Cotton winds up embroiled in a centuries-old conspiracy, this time involving the real-life Knights of Malta, a humanitarian organization founded roughly a millennium ago. The events unfold at a breakneck pace, as usual, but Berry slows things down once in a while to give the reader some much-needed exposition and historical context. He really is very good at the historical-conspiracy thriller; he's a skilled writer?much more so than Dan Brown, to whom he's often compared?and a more dexterous plotter than many of his contemporaries. Fans of the Malone series will give this one an enthusiastic thumbs-up.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)

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     March 1, 2019
     

     At Italy's Lake Como, former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone hunts for possibly history-shaking letters between Winston Churchill and Benito Mussolini that vanished in 1945. That leads him to the nearly millennium-old Knights of Malta, now controlled by the Secreti as the election of a new pope looms. Berry's recent The Lost Order was an LJ Best Thriller.

     Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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"Berry is the master scientist with a perfect formula." — Associated Press
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.
Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is at Lake Como, Italy, on the trail of legendary letters between Winston Churchill and Benito Mussolini that disappeared in 1945 and could re-write history. But someone else seems to be after the same letters and, when Malone obtains then loses them, he's plunged into a hunt that draws the attention of the legendary Knights of Malta.
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