The Venetian Betrayal

A Novel

By: Steve Berry

Narrated by: Erik Singer

“[Steve Berry] has a genuine feel for the factual gaps that give history its tantalizing air of the unknown.”—The New York Times Book Review

After narrowly escaping incineration in a devastating fire that consumes a Danish museum, Cotton Malone—former Justice Department agent turned rare-book dealer—learns from his friend, the beguiling adventurer Cassiopeia Vitt, that the blaze was neither an accident nor an isolated incident. As part of a campaign of arson intended to mask a far more diabolical design, buildings across Europe are being devoured by infernos of unnatural strength. Born from the ashes is a new Eastern European nation whose ruthless leader will soon draw Cotton into an intense geopolitical chess game against a shadowy cabal of power brokers. The prize lies buried with the mummified remains of Alexander the Great—in a tomb lost to the ages for more than two thousand years. Trekking from Denmark
to Venice to Central Asia, Cotton and Cassiopeia are determined to solve an ancient puzzle whose solution
could destroy or save millions of people—depending on who finds the lost tomb first.

“There’s nothing tastier than a globe-spanning mystery. . . . Berry’s books excel at bringing out fascinating tidbits of history.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch©2008 Steve Berry; (P)2008 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.

Great story, this should be a movie!

Fantastic story line, very well written in my opinion. This whole Cotton Malone series should be a movie series too like Bond.
Thank you Steve, Cotton Helped with the passing of 2020.

Confused

The story and reading thereof were great, I'm just very confused and upset that the book is advertised as being over 15 hours long, but upon purchase, I've discovered its actually 6 hours and 18 minutes long. I typically don't spend a credit on books under 10 hours, so I'm very upset that I was tricked into purchasing a shorter book