![]() But at least he can count on Ned Kelly as a source of support. It's not all plain sailing in the romance department either. And Benjamin Wharton is still being obnoxious. ![]() It's a new school year at Hawley Lodge and this time Luke Brownlow is sure that everything will go smoothly.Of course there's the small matter of the ongoing feud between the Romans and the Vikings to resolve. 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. Thorvaldsen's vendetta places Malone in an impossible quandary-one that forces him to choose between friend and country, past and present. 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.īut 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. ![]() The wily Danish tycoon has uncovered the insidious plans of the Paris Club, a cabal of multimillionaires bent on manipulating the global economy. Their first stop is the secluded estate of Malone's good friend, Henrik Thorvaldsen. Malone has his doubts about the anxious young man, but narrowly surviving a ferocious firefight convinces him to follow his unexpected new ally. Actually, it breaks and enters in the form of an American Secret Service agent with a pair of assassins on his heels. Or did he?įormer Justice Department operative Cotton Malone isn't looking for trouble when it comes knocking at his Copenhagen bookshop. ![]() But he told them nothing, and in his will he made no mention of the treasure. In his final days, his British captors hoped to learn where the loot lay hidden. As general and emperor, he had stolen immeasurable riches from palaces, national treasuries, and even the Knights of Malta and the Vatican. When Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile in 1821, he took to the grave a powerful secret. As Smith slowly uncovers the deadly underpinnings of the group, he soon learns that the Lazarus Movement is only the very tip of the iceberg in a deadly scheme that threatens billions of lives and will forever change the nature of the world itself.īONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Steve Berry’s The Columbus Affair and a Cotton Malone dossier. Jon Smith is activated by Covert-One to find and uncover the truth about Lazarus where all others have failed. When an attack on a nano-technology research facility leaves thousands dead- protestors and scientists alike-from what appears to be a cloud of inadvertently released but gruesomely deadly nanobots, pandemonium reigns. Led by a mysterious, never-seen figure known only as Lazarus, this increasingly prominent group is believed by some to be preparing a bold strike. The Lazarus Movement, the dominant force in the eco-conscious, "anti-technology" protest movement, has sent rumblings down the halls of the world's intelligence agencies. His Covert-One series has been among his most beloved creations and now comes the latest thrilling novel in the series. For the past three decades Robert Ludlum's bestselling novels have been enjoyed by hundreds of millions of readers worldwide and have set the standard against which all other thrillers are measured.
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