The Patriot Threat
An addictive and thrilling action adventure novel from the New York Times bestselling author
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4.4 • 19 Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
'Riveting read from start to finish' Reader review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
'A proper page turner' Reader review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
'Spellbinding' Reader review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
No one knew that the 16th Amendment to the Constitution was flawed. No one knew that there were secrets powerful enough to bring down the US economy.
Cotton Malone, once a member of an elite intelligence division within the Justice Department, is now retired and owns an old bookshop in Denmark. But when his former boss 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, Cotton Malone faces a dangerous question: What if the Federal income tax is illegal?
Don't miss the next high-stakes and action-packed instalment in the Cotton Malone series from New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry, perfect for fans of Dan Brown and David Baldacci!
Readers love The Patriot Threat:
'Another great yarn from the master storyteller' Reader review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
'My kind of thriller' Dan Brown
'Steve Berry has done it again. His Cotton Malone series gets better and better' Reader review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
'Berry raises this genre's stakes' The New York Times
'Highly recommended for anyone that is a fan of mystery, history and action' Reader review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'I love this guy' Lee Child
'The action is constant. The reader is kept in the dark until the conclusion, but the twists and turns kept me glued to my Kindle' Reader review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'As always with Steve Berry, you're educated about significant things while your knuckles are turning white and the pages are flying by' David Baldacci
'The best thing about a Berry book is how well he intertwines historical fact with the action' Reader review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Berry comes up with a highly unusual premise for his 10th Cotton Malone thriller (after 2014's The Lincoln Myth): a historical flaw in the U.S. income tax code has the potential to destroy the country's economy. In Berry's timely what-if scenario, North Korean leader Kim Yong Jin has been dropped from the line of dynastic succession because of a disgraceful abortive trip to Tokyo Disneyland. Kim, now known as a playboy, sees an opportunity to regain his former glory when he stumbles on a 1936 mystery involving then secretary of the treasury Andrew Mellon and president Franklin Roosevelt. Kim's accidental but fortuitous reading of a book about the American tax code, The Patriot Threat, written by tax resister Anan Wayne Howell, puts him on the path of the mystery, which he, along with his warrior daughter, Hana, are determined to solve, no matter how many people they have to kill to do so. Fans of political conspiracy fiction will find plenty to like.
