Simultaneous release with the Ballantine hardcover (Reviews, Dec.
Having fun with his reading, Corrigan masterfully conveys the entertainment value of Berry's convoluted story. rak s vlemnyek egy helyen The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes.
Corrigan contains multitudes, and his able array of voices show a man who greatly enjoys the opportunity to have the stage of Berry's book all to himself. , mingling medieval Christian secrecy and contemporary intelligence-agency intrigue. Good knights and bad knights chase each other around southwestern France in yet another tale of Sensational Untold Christian Revelation. Berry's novel follows in the tradition of The Da Vinci Code While the results are occasionally, unintentionally comic, Corrigan is to be commended: his multivoiced, one-man-band reading makes for a wildly enjoyable listen. Corrigan gamely tackles what so many other readers tiptoe around, imitating each of the voices in Berry's international array of shadowy operators. At the end of a lethal game of conquest, rife with intrigue, treachery, and craven lust for power, lies a shattering discovery that could rock the civilized world–and bring it to its knees.There are times when Corrigan attempts the French accent of this book's arch-villain, Raymond de Roquefort, that he sounds like nothing so much as Peter Sellers's Inspector Clouseau with a bad head cold. But the more he learns about the ancient conspiracy surrounding the Knights Templar, the more he realizes that even more than lives are at stake. Welcome or not, Cotton seeks to even the odds in the perilous race. He has 25 million books in print, translated into 40 languages. But she’s not alone.Ĭompeting for the historic prize–and desperate for the crucial information Stephanie possesses–is Raymond de Roquefort, a shadowy zealot with an army of assassins at his command. Steve Berry is the New York Times and 1 internationally bestselling author of the Cotton Malone novels ( The Bishop's Pawn, The Malta Exchange ), among other books, and several works of short fiction. It begins with a violent robbery attempt on Cotton’s former supervisor, Stephanie Nelle, who’s far from home on a mission that has nothing to do with national security.
Justice Department, is enjoying his quiet new life as an antiquarian book dealer in Copenhagen when an unexpected call to action reawakens his hair-trigger instincts–and plunges him back into the cloak-and-dagger world he thought he’d left behind. Cotton Malone, one-time top operative for the U.S.
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