The Charlemagne Pursuit: A Novel

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by: Steve Berry

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780345485793
ISBN: 0345485793
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: December 02, 2008
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: December 02, 2008
Studio: Ballantine Books

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Product Description:
As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic, but now he wants the full story and asks his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, to secure the military files. What he learns stuns him: His father’s sub was a secret nuclear vessel lost on a highly classified mission beneath the ice shelves of Antarctica.

But Malone isn’t the only one after the truth.

Twin sisters Dorothea Lindauer and Christl Falk are fighting for the fortune their mother has promised to whichever of them discovers what really became of their father–who died on the same submarine that Malone’s father captained.

The sisters know something Malone doesn’t: Inspired by strange clues discovered in Charlemagne’s tomb, the Nazis explored Antarctica before the Americans, as long ago as 1938. Now Malone discovers that cryptic journals penned in “the language of heaven,” inscrutable conundrums posed by an ancient historian, and the ill-fated voyage of his father are all tied to a revelation of immense consequence for humankind.

In an effort to ensure that this explosive information never rises to the surface, Langford Ramsey, an ambitious navy admiral, has begun a brutal game of treachery, blackmail, and assassination. As Malone embarks on a dangerous quest with the sisters–one that leads them from an ancient German cathedral to a snowy French citadel to the unforgiving ice of Antarctica–he will finally confront the shocking truth of his father’s death and the distinct possibility of his own.




Rating: - purchased as a christmas gift.....
....for someone in my office. she always asks for steve berry's books, so he must be a terrific writer :)

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Rating: - Intriguing premise....
I read Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code when it came out and enjoyed it. But then I discovered Steve Berry and haven't looked back. As far as I'm concerned he's the master of this genre, combining historical fact with suspense, intrigue and non stop action.

Berry's recurring character is Cotton Malone, a 'retired' government agent. His father Forrest died in a submarine accident in 1971. For years he has tried to find out details, but has been stymied by the Navy. He pulls in a favour and gains ... Read More

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Rating: - The Bodies Pile up like Cord Wood
I've read a few other Berry thrillers (THE AMBER ROOM, THE ROMANOV PROPHECY), mainly to satisfy my Romanov jones. Berry usually does a pretty good job making the historical distortions palatable. That's not the case with THE CHARLEMAGNE PURSUIT. I wanted to know more about Charlemagne, but this is more about some crazy Nazi scheme to prove their Aryan ancestry.

The book is in trouble right off the bat in that there are too many characters, and each of them is given his/her own viewpoint. ... Read More

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Rating: - A Complete Disappointment
While Berry's prior Cotton Malone books were worth reading as limited successes in emulating the "Da Vinci Code" formula, the characters were always a bit two dimensional and the clues and plot a bit implausible. But this effort goes so far over the top, particularly with the "development" of the plot concerning the old woman and her two daughters that I was tempted several times to abandon the read. The only interesting subplot occurred in Washington where some semblance of potential reality was maintained. ... Read More

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Rating: - wait...wait...darn
Steve Berry has the formula for interesting books.

1- His main character, Cotton Mather, is complex and interesting with the plausable background of having once worked for the governement but has decided to retire to the life of a bookseller in Europe (good so far);
2- Mather has as a reoccuring circle of friends who seem to have endless connections and unimaginable wealth, all of which he seems to have access to at his beck and call (well, it is fiction);
3- Berry's books are historically ... Read More

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