Interesting read once again. Though as I stated before in my review, with the death of Thorvaldsen I lost the drive, it takes me too many days to finish the book. And it might be probably, because I need a break from a series for a while, read something different and then come back and finish it....
**ฉบับภาษาไทย - นิยายตัดไปตัดมาในเหตุการ์ต่างสถานที่กันบ่อยมาก จนรู้สึกว่าบ่อยเกินไป- มีข้อมูลประวัติศาสตร์ที่เกี่ยวกับศาสนาคริสต์ ยิว เยอะเกิน จนไม่ค่อยสนุก The story is good (although you are asked to swallow a lot)The writing is kind of weak and that gets in the way.The characters just come at...
The conspiracy fiction attracts my attention since the first day it was released n the UK. Undoubtedly, the identity of Elizabeth I intrigues me strongly. I have been in the Westminster Abbey more than three times and I admire the tomb where Queen of England and Queen of Scots are lying together....
Terrible. Every chapter, 'and then, and then...' Tedious. Definitely not his best and a bit of a boring historical mystery.
This thing was not very good. Fortunately enough I bought it for .99$ on the Apple iBookstore. Just wanted to see if it would be possible to read something on my iPhone. It actually was pretty easy to do despite being such a small screen. As for the story it was really short. I'm sure that t...
So… Another Cotton Malone thriller… a shortie… This is one of Steve Berry’s novellas… Always a fun quick read… Using some alternate history Berry draws us in quickly with scandalous and salacious intrigue. While he could have pulled this novella in to a full on book… the plot was defiantly meaty ...
As with most short stories being released these days by the likes of Berry & Lee Child, this was a solid filler to tide fans over between full-length novels and give somewhat of a lead-in to the next novel. There's so much about the history of civilization in our world that remains mysterious, a...
Despite this only being a short story it has the typical traits of a full length novel from Steve Berry. A well thought out plot and some well crafted characters lead the reader into a world of intrigue. Along the way we meet a shadowy Austrian, the Israeli Mossad and from the Magellan Billet the...
This wasn't up to the standards that I've come to expect from Steve Berry. I know it was meant as a teaser/tie-in to his novel "The Columbus Affair", so I'm willing to give it a bit of leeway but, while it was successful in introducing the protagonist of the new novel, it also focused a lot more...
This is a short and quick read that ties in and provides a back-story to The Jefferson Key.Jonathan Wyatt, former colleague of Cotton Malone, who he blames for destroying his career, discovers some secrets about Hitler’s hidden bounty and something about what happened to Eva Braun & Martin Bornma...
The Amber Room is a much like the kind of tale I write – an international thriller with an everyman protagonist (in this case, an everyman and everywoman) who gets by with whatever native intelligence and wits he/she brings to the party. It was Steve Berry’s first published novel, one of three he...
Here's the deal: if you hated the DaVinci Code for its content, you'll probably really hate this one. Me, I know it's fiction (like the DaVinci Code), so the content didn't really bother me. But I think I was a wee bit disappointed in the story; I guess I expected something a little more earth-sh...
JAMES PENNY’S NEW IDENTITYJames Penny’s New Identity tells the story of war veteran James Penny, who is laid off from his job after 17 years. Penny acts out on his anger at being fired and is now on the run from the cops. He meets a precarious army police officer that befriends him, and helps him...
Okay. Here's the deal. If you go to Amazon.com, you're going to see this book picked apart by people who judge it because it doesn't conform to their ideas about Christianity, and because it offers a new way to look at the Catholic Church, etc., etc., etc. So my advice: if you're a devout Christi...
Like Dan Brown, Steve Berry is a guilty pleasure kind of read for me. And for the record, I don’t care much about historical accuracy (or inaccuracy, in Brown’s case,) I just like alternate history and the way these authors spin their stories.I’ve read only 2 other books by Berry so far: The Ambe...
What if the biblical basis for the Israeli state was incorrect? What if the real evidence for the creation of the Jewish state was in western Saudi Arabia? What if the ancient translations that led to the writing of the Old Testament from old Hebrew and Greek were open to an interpretation that...
Locating Alexander the Great's final resting place-unknown to this day-remains a tantalizing goal for both archaeologists and treasure hunters. Now the quest for this coveted prize is about to heat up. After narrowly escaping a fire that consumes a Danish museum, Cotton Malone-former U.S. Justice...
He was an intelligent, quick-witted man who did not waste time on small talk. He seemed an eager listener, a person who absorbed facts, cataloged them in proper order, then swiftly drew conclusions.Just like herself.“Napoleon realized,” she said, “that war was good for society. Like nothing else,...
Stay cool, the young man’s eyes signaled. This Frat Boy obviously knew of his connection with Cassiopeia.“Let me get you back to your hotel,” Salazar said from the study.Malone pointed to the open doorway six feet away, and they both slipped inside a darkened media room. Soft chairs faced a huge ...
Other than what he’d been wearing when he was kidnapped a few days ago, the boy had no clothes. So yesterday Jesper had made a trip into Copenhagen and purchased a few things. “This house is old, isn’t it?” Gary asked. “Built many generations ago, l...
She’d seen her mother speak with Christl after dinner and wondered what had been said. She’d seen Ulrich leave and knew what task he’d been delegated. She wondered what her role would be. Apparently it was to make amends with her husband, as they’d been given a room together with one small bed. W...
Stephanie left the White House and rode in a cab back to the Mandarin Oriental where she showered, changed clothes, and grabbed something to eat. She’d managed just a few hours of sleep, her mind reeling from what she’d read in the file Danny had provided. The Soviet Union had been intently inter...
The only thing worse was a wedding. Both events involved an expected display of emotion, and both sparked memories better left forgotten. He’d attended only a handful of either since leaving the navy six years before and working full-time for the Justice Department. Today’s funeral was further co...
The only thing worse was a wedding. Both events involved an expected display of emotion, and both sparked memories better left forgotten. He’d attended only a handful of either since leaving the navy six years before and working full-time for the Justice Department. Today’s funeral was further co...
The past few hours had been the worst of his life. He’d left Windsor and ridden back to London in silence, heading first to his office at Parliament. He’d felt safe there, though he realized that his time as an influential member of that body was drawing to a close. Nothing had gone right. And he...
He decided to wait until whoever it was came close before firing. He angled the gun toward a set of bars in a niche twenty feet away. His right elbow brushed the bones stacked to his right and he instantly drew it away. Then he saw something on the wall to his left, four feet off the ground, insi...
But they would kill her, that much was certain. Or at least they’d try. Which meant she needed to do something, but her options were limited. Her hands were bound behind her back with nylon twine, her feet chained to the rock wall that encased her like a dark cocoon. She was deep in the Rila moun...
Bathing still remained, for her, a luxury. Every time she turned on a faucet and allowed clean, fresh water to engulf her she thought of the camp. No one bathed there, unless allowed, and only then when it rained or in the cold river. She never knew just how awful her life had been until she was ...