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The King's Deception de Steve Berry

The King's Deception

Autor Steve Berry
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2014

Structura narativă a acestui volum este construită pe o cronologie duală, unde prezentul tensionat al spionajului internațional se ciocnește violent cu secretele îngropate ale dinastiei Tudor. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Steve Berry transformă o misiune aparent simplă de escortă într-o cursă contra cronometru prin Londra. Cotton Malone este forțat să intre într-un joc diplomatic periculos după ce fiul său, Gary, dispare în urma unei ambuscade armate. Miza? O operațiune CIA numită King's Deception care amenință să zdruncine fundația monarhiei britanice. Merită menționat că autorul împletește fapte reale, precum eliberarea teroristului din cazul Pan Am Flight 103, cu o enigmă istorică despre legitimitatea Elisabetei I. Dacă The Tudor Secret de Christopher Gortner v-a captivat prin atmosfera curții regale și jocurile de putere ale spionilor din secolul al XVI-lea, această carte extinde experiența în direcția unui thriller geopolitic modern, unde trecutul este folosit ca o armă politică letală. Credem că The King's Deception reprezintă un punct de cotitură în seria Cotton Malone. Față de alte lucrări precum The Devil's Bible, unde miza era legată de siguranța unei familii regale nordice, aici conflictul devine personal și visceral. Ritmul este alert, capitolele sunt scurte, iar tensiunea dintre loialitatea față de țară și protejarea familiei domină fiecare pagină. Este o incursiune fascinantă în arhivele istoriei, livrată cu precizia unui fost avocat care știe să construiască un caz imbatabil.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780345526557
ISBN-10: 0345526554
Pagini: 640
Dimensiuni: 108 x 190 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Random House

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorii care caută un roman polițist ce îmbină rigoarea istorică cu adrenalina spionajului modern. Veți câștiga o perspectivă inedită asupra istoriei britanice, totul pe fundalul unei crize diplomatice de actualitate. Este recomandarea noastră pentru fanii lui Dan Brown care își doresc un protagonist mai activ și un scenariu ancorat în realități politice dure.

Despre autor

Steve Berry este un autor american de succes, fost avocat pledant timp de 30 de ani, experiență care îi conferă prozei sale o structură logică și o documentare impecabilă. Originar din Florida, el este membru fondator al International Thriller Writers. Cu peste 15 milioane de exemplare tipărite și traduse în patruzeci de limbi, Berry s-a impus ca un maestru al genului prin seria Cotton Malone. Pasiunea sa pentru istorie și mistere nerezolvate transformă fiecare roman într-o lecție de arheologie politică, explorând teme care variază de la secretele Vaticanului până la tezaure pierdute din Al Doilea Război Mondial.

Descriere scurtă

"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER
Cotton Malone is back Steve Berry s new international adventure blends gripping contemporary political intrigue, Tudor treachery, and high-octane thrills into one riveting novel of suspense.
Cotton Malone and his fifteen-year-old son, Gary, are headed to Europe. As a favor to his former boss at the Justice Department, Malone agrees to escort a teenage fugitive back to England. But after he is greeted at gunpoint in London, both the fugitive and Gary disappear, and Malone learns that he s stumbled into a high-stakes diplomatic showdown an international incident fueled by geopolitical gamesmanship and shocking Tudor secrets.
At its heart is the Libyan terrorist convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103, who is set to be released by Scottish authorities for humanitarian reasons. An outraged American government objects, but nothing can persuade the British to intervene.
Except, perhaps, Operation King s Deception.
Run by the CIA, the operation aims to solve a centuries-old mystery, one that could rock Great Britain to its royal foundations.
Blake Antrim, the CIA operative in charge of King s Deception, is hunting for the spark that could rekindle a most dangerous fire, the one thing that every Irish national has sought for generations: a legal reason why the English must leave Northern Ireland. The answer is a long-buried secret that calls into question the legitimacy of the entire forty-five-year reign of Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch, who completed the conquest of Ireland and seized much of its land. But Antrim also has a more personal agenda, a twisted game of revenge in which Gary is a pawn. With assassins, traitors, spies, and dangerous disciples of a secret society closing in, Malone is caught in a lethal bind. To save Gary he must play one treacherous player against another and only by uncovering the incredible truth can he hope to prevent the shattering consequences of the King s Deception.
Don t miss Steve Berry s novella "The Tudor Plot" and a sneak peek of his new novel, "The Lincoln Myth, "in the back of the book.
Praise for "The King s Deception"
A Dan Brown-ian secular conspiracy about the Virgin Queen driving nonstop international intrigue. " Kirkus Reviews"
Praise for Steve Berry
Berry raises this genre s stakes. "The New York Times"
I love this guy. #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Lee Child
Forget Clancy and Cussler. When it comes to this genre, there is simply no one better. " The Providence Journal""

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There is a secret from our history - 500 years old - startling in its revelations and devastating in its political impact. A secret that has, thankfully, stayed hidden. Until now.

Former Justice Department agent, Cotton Malone, travels to England and finds himself caught in a dark conspiracy born long ago, in the time of the Tudors.

Now both the CIA and MI6 seem to be competing to uncover the mystery and, for Malone, supposedly on holiday with his son, Gary, it's not just the action which comes thick and fast. When Gary disappears, Malone is forced into a race against time, as he battles to decipher a puzzle that leads him from the Middle Temple to the chapel at Windsor Castle, from an Oxford college to the sewers beneath Hampton Court.

With assassins, traitors, spies, and dangerous disciples of a secret society closing in, Malone discovers that the solution to the mystery will not only draw him into a lethal trap, but force him closer to his own troubling past.

And a shocking revelation.

Recenzii

In classical Steve Berry style, there are more twists and turns in this plot than in a 1970s disco bar. With its great plot and interesting characters, this book is a real page turner and an enjoyable read. Highly recommended.
A textbook lesson in everything a great thriller should be.
As smart as it is chilling, as bold as it is brash, Berry's latest is literary entertainment of the highest order.

Betrayals abound, and it's never clear what's really going on or the true motives behind the players manipulating Malone at every turn.
The tension, the suspense and the adrenaline rush are all at their most fevered pitch.
Berry's cinematic action ricochets through castles, manor grounds and London's undergrounds while involving a professor assassinated but not dead, scholarly twin sisters and Sir Thomas Mathews, the British SIS's Machiavellian chief.
Malone, the teenage boys and Richards survive more entrapments and gun battles than humanly possible. A Dan Brown-ian secular conspiracy about The Virgin Queen driving nonstop international intrigue.

My kind of thriller . . . Steve Berry writes with the self-assured style of a veteran
Berry raises this genre's stakes
As always with Steve Berry, you're educated about significant things while your knuckles are turning white and the pages are flying by
I love this guy