The Patriot Threat: A Novel (Cotton Malone Book 10), by Steve Berry
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The Patriot Threat: A Novel (Cotton Malone Book 10), by Steve Berry
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The 16th Amendment to the Constitution is why Americans pay income taxes. But what if there were problems associated with that amendment? Secrets that call into question decades of tax collecting? In fact, there is a surprising truth to this hidden possibility.Cotton Malone, once a member of an elite intelligence division within the Justice Department known as the Magellan Billet, is now retired and owns an old bookshop in Denmark. But when his former-boss, Stephanie Nelle, asks him to track a rogue North Korean who may have acquired some top secret Treasury Department files—the kind that could bring the United States to its knees—Malone is vaulted into a harrowing twenty-four hour chase that begins on the canals in Venice and ends in the remote highlands of Croatia.
With appearances by Franklin Roosevelt, Andrew Mellon, a curious painting that still hangs in the National Gallery of Art, and some eye-opening revelations from the $1 bill, this riveting, non-stop adventure is trademark Steve Berry—90% historical fact, 10% exciting speculation—a provocative thriller posing a dangerous question: What if the Federal income tax is illegal?
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- Published on: 2015-03-31
- Released on: 2015-03-31
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The Patriot Threat: A Novel (Cotton Malone Book 10), by Steve Berry Review
“One of Berry's best books to date.” ―The New York Times
“Steve Berry is a master at weaving together historical details with fiction to create a spellbinding thriller...Suspenseful, entertaining and thought provoking. As usual, Berry’s writing is smooth, the plot well thought out, and the characters realistic. Another winner from Steve Berry.” ―The Providence Journal
“Cotton Malone is once again thrown into the midst of fast-paced international threats. The history in this novel is intriguing, even to non-history buffs.” ―RT Book Reviews (4 stars)
“A fast-paced and entertaining traditional thriller along the lines of The Da Vinci Code. [The Patriot Threat is] loaded with action, character sketches, fascinating history and Mr. Berry’s liberal use of poetic license.” ―The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
About the Author Steve Berry is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of 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 LINK, THE TEMPLAR LEGACY, THE THIRD SECRET, THE ROMANOV PROPHECY, and THE AMBER ROOM. His books have been translated into 40 languages with 17,000,000 copies in 51 countries. History lies at the heart of every Steve Berry novel. It's his passion, one he shares with his wife, Elizabeth, which led them to create History Matters, a foundation dedicated to historic preservation. Since 2009 Steve and Elizabeth have crossed the country to save endangered historic treasures, raising money via lectures, receptions, galas, luncheons, dinners and their popular writers' workshops. To date, nearly 2,500 students have attended those workshops. In 2012 their work was recognized by the American Library Association, which named Steve the first spokesman for National Preservation Week. He was also appointed by the Smithsonian Board of Regents to serve on the Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board to help promote and support the libraries in their mission to provide information in all forms to scientists, curators, scholars, students and the public at large. He has received the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award; the 2013 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award; his novel The Columbus Affair earned him the Anne Frank Human Writes Award; and International Thriller Writers bestowed him the 2013 Silver Bullet for his work with historic preservation. Steve was born and raised in Georgia, graduating from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University. He was a trial lawyer for 30 years and held elective office for 14 of those years. He is a founding member of International Thriller Writers - a group of more than 2,600 thriller writers from around the world - and served for three years as its co-president. For more information, visit www.steveberry.org.
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54 of 61 people found the following review helpful. Cotton Malone Averts Disclosure of Documents That Threaten to Invalidate U.S. Income Tax, Destroy Global Economy By Lynne E. THE PATRIOT THREAT is another "Da Vinci Code" formula novel--in which the lead character embarks on a sort of treasure hunt, following a bread-crumb trail of clues (found in widely scattered documents, maps, artifacts, building decorations, whatever) to discover or protect a shocking, closely-guarded secret that will change the world if revealed. Nobody does this kind of novel better than accomplished writer Steve Berry, and nobody carries out the investigation better than Berry's well-rounded, fearless operative Cotton Malone.In this adventure, U.S. President Danny Daniels asks the Magellan Billet (headed by Stephanie Nelle) and the Secretary of the Treasury (Joe Levy) to investigate a global insurance scam that produces an annual $20 million "birthday gift" for North Korea's head of state (Dear Leader). When this year's birthday present literally goes up in flames, Cotton's attention is drawn to Dear Leader's close relative (Kim Yong Jin). Eventually he learns that Kim Yong Jin is covertly pursuing a bundle of classified original and copied documents that a whistle-blowing former federal employee has stolen from the files of the U.S. Treasury Department.For the most part, the documents relate to (1) the mystery of why several successive U.S. Presidents appointed Andrew Mellon as Secretary of the Treasury; (2) to the purpose of a mystery meeting that actually occurred between President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his hated adversary Andrew Mellon; and (3) to questions surrounding the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (adopted in February 2013, authorizing the U.S. income tax). To obtain the stolen documents, Kim Yong Jin will stop at nothing, because he is convinced that their publication will invalidate the U.S. income tax. This will destroy the U.S. economy by obligating the U.S. government to repay all the monies, plus interest, that it has fraudulently collected from its citizens since 1913 under the authority of the invalid Amendment. Publication will also destroy most of the rest of the world's economy, including the Chinese economy, all to the benefit of North Korea's economy.THE PATRIOT THREAT is a page-turner thriller, with lots of spy action, murders, espionage dirty tricks, cipher-breaking, and unexpected plot twists. The characters are all well drawn and memorable. I liked this new entry in the Cotton Malone series much better than the previous novel (The Lincoln Myth), because it doesn't include so much invented history, and doesn't play so fast and loose with actual historical facts and events.Evidently there are genuine questions about the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, and the novel's argument that the Amendment's invalidation would destroy the U.S. and world economy is totally logical and rational. Of course, as a practical matter, the U.S. Courts will never declare the Sixteenth Amendment invalid, because it has been accepted as the law of the land for more than a century. But in THE PATRIOT THREAT, Steve Berry has created a fascinating, fast-moving novel that uses the idea to great advantage, without ever offending the reader's willingness to suspend disbelief.
45 of 52 people found the following review helpful. Not my favorite Cotton Malone By Sandy Kay This is part of the Cotton Malone series and I wouldn't recommend reading it if you haven't read at least one of the other books in the series. The story generally stands alone so you could read it first, but there are references to characters and events not in this book that might be confusing. There is some background information but not really enough to give a new reader a lot of information about the character.I like Cotton Malone a lot, but this was not my favorite book in large part because I couldn't get excited about the "threat" involved in the story. Perhaps I'd have taken it more seriously if I had read the author's notes at the end of the book before starting the book but as it was a spent most of the book thinking it was silly. There are two "secrets" from earlier in US history that foreign powers want to use against the United States. Both apparently have some basis in reality as one should expect from the author's books, though I think one of them wouldn't legally be enough of an issue for anyone to worry about and it is more of a sideline distraction to the story.After I decided to stop overthinking the reality of the threat and just go with the flow of the story, my enjoyment of the book increased significantly. I missed the Cassiopia Vitt character but there was a new character I hope will become a part of the regular cast of characters.There seemed to be more emphasis on the "bad guys" characters than I had remembered from some of the other books which made this interesting and also gives the reader some insight into life in North Korea. There is also a lot of action across three different countries.If you like the Cotton Malone books, you should like this one. If you haven't yet read this series, I think you'd enjoy it more if you read at least one of the earlier books in the series first.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Cotton Malone braves great danger to solve historical puzzles that could topple the US Government. Again. By MysteryPoodle I wish there was a rating between "It's okay" and "I like it" for this book. It is the standard Steve Berry formula for Cotton Malone, an adventurous quest to save the United States from the devastation that would occur if some centuries-old document becomes public. In this case, Malone is tracking down documents that might prove the 16th amendment -- and income tax -- to have been improperly ratified and thus be illegal. An American fugitive has the documents and wishes to meet with other like-minded ex-patriots but a North Korean playboy and his killing machine daughter want the documents in order to bring down the US government and secure their own places as saviors in North Korea.Malone is moping about having parted ways with his fellow-operative girlfriend, Cassiopeia Witt, in the last novel, and Stephanie Nelle, head of the Magellan Billet for which Malone is taking on an after-retirement mission (haven't all of his chronicled adventures been post-retirement?) is still looking forward to exploring a personal relationship with Danny Daniels, presently married and, incidentally, the US President.Action takes place on a Mediterranean cruise ship, then Croatia, as well as in Washington D.C. and backstory historical figures include Andrew Mellon, FDR, and pretty much all the North Korean dictators.If you've ever wondered what the "income taxes are illegal" folks are going on about, this is probably a fairly painless way to get the general idea, and you get a nice grounding in modern North Korean history, too. This is also the third mystery I've read in recent months that celebrates the beauty and tragedy of Croatia. But the quotes from real and purported documents are long and dry, and the action very Clive Cussler over-the-top, and I just didn't really *care* very much about how it all turned out.
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