The Columbus Affair: A Novel (with bonus short story The Admiral's Mark)
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The Columbus Affair: A Novel (with bonus short story The Admiral's Mark) by Steve Berry
A family's secret, a ruthless fanatic, and a covert arm of the American government--all are linked by a single puzzling possibility:What if everything we know about the discovery of America was a lie? What if that lie was designed to hide the secret of why Columbus sailed in 1492? And what if that 500-year-old secret could violently reshape the modern political world?
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Tom Sagan has written hard-hitting articles from hot spots around the world. But when one of his stories from the Middle East is exposed as a fraud, his professional reputation crashes and burns. Now he lives in virtual exile--haunted by bad decisions and a shocking truth he can never prove: that his downfall was a deliberate act of sabotage by an unknown enemy. But before Sagan can end his torment with the squeeze of a trigger, fate intervenes in the form of an enigmatic stranger. This stranger forces Sagan to act--and his actions attract the attention of the Magellan Billet, a top-secret corps of the United States Justice Department that deals with America's most sensitive investigations. Sagan suddenly finds himself caught in an international incident, the repercussions of which will shudder not only Washington, D.C., but also Jerusalem. Coaxed into a deadly cat-and-mouse game, unsure who's friend and who's foe, Sagan is forced to Vienna, Prague, then finally into the Blue Mountains of Jamaica--where his survival hinges on his rewriting everything we know about Christopher Columbus.
Don't miss Steve Berry's short story "The Admiral's Mark" in the back of the book.
The Lincoln Myth, The King's Deception, The Columbus Affair, The Jefferson Key, The Emperor's Tomb, The Paris Vendetta, The Charlemagne Pursuit, The Venetian Betrayal, The Alexandria Connection, The Templar Legacy, The Third Secret, The Romanov Prophecy, and The Amber Room are among Steve Berry's New York Times and #1 international bestselling novels. His books have been translated into 40 languages and sold in 51 countries, totaling more than 17,000,000 copies. Every Steve Berry novel is based on historical events. It was because of this devotion that he and his wife, Elizabeth, founded History Matters, a organization dedicated to historic preservation. Since 2009, Steve and Elizabeth have traveled around the country raising funds through talks, receptions, galas, luncheons, dinners, and their popular writers' workshops to rescue threatened historic treasures.
Over 2,500 pupils have attended the sessions to date. The American Library Association honored their efforts in 2012, naming Steve the inaugural spokesman for National Preservation Week. He was also appointed to the Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board by the Smithsonian Board of Regents to help promote and support the libraries' objective of providing information in all forms to scientists, curators, researchers, students, and the general public. He's been awarded the Royden B.
Davis Distinguished Author Award and Poets & Writers' 2013 Writers for Writers Award His novel The Columbus Affair won the Anne Frank Human Writes Prize, and his historic preservation work earned him the International Thriller Writers' Silver Bullet in 2013. Steve Berry was born and raised in Georgia, where he received his education at Walter F. Johnson High School. Mercer University's George School of Law
He worked as a trial lawyer for 30 years, 14 of which he served in elective office. He was a founding member of the International Thriller Writers, a organization of over 2,600 thriller writers from all over the world, and served as its co-president for three years. Visit www.steveberry.org for additional information.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780345526526 |
| ISBN 10 | 034552652X |
| Title | The Columbus Affair: A Novel (with bonus short story The Admiral's Mark) |
| Author | Steve Berry |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2013-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 608 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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