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Cotton Malone Series

New Excerpt: The Kaiser’s Web by Steve Berry

By Crime HQ

February 19, 2021

Prologue State of Bavaria, Germany   Saturday, June 8   10:40 a.m. Danny Daniels liked the freedom of not being president of the United States. Make no mistake, he’d loved being president. And for eight years he’d performed the job to the best of his ability. But he really cherished his life as it was now. Able…

5 Thrillers Set in Paris You Should Be Reading

By Elle Marr

April 1, 2020

Despite being the subject of countless romance and literary fiction novels, the City of Light also wields the dark and disturbing ambience for thrillers. Dead end pedestrian streets, loose cobblestone, underground lairs, and mass graves stemming from epidemics offer up the perfect setting for a tense narrative. Get transported to Paris’ atmospheric arrondissements in each…

The Warsaw Protocol by Steve Berry: Audio Excerpt

By Steve Berry

February 26, 2020

In this audiobook, Steve Berry and Macmillan Audio team up again to bring listeners an expanded, annotated Writer’s Cut edition of The Warsaw Protocol. This Writer’s Cut edition features fascinating behind-the-scenes commentary read by the author, and critically-acclaimed and award-winning narrator Scott Brick returns to his role as Cotton Malone – eponymous hero of Berry’s iconic New…

The Warsaw Protocol by Steve Berry: New Excerpt

By Steve Berry

January 13, 2020

CHAPTER ONE TUESDAY, JUNE 4 BRUGES, BELGIUM Cotton Malone hated when two plus two equaled five. Over the course of his former career as an American intelligence officer, that troubling result had happened far more often than not. Call it an occupational hazard or merely just plain bad luck. No matter. Nothing good ever came from fuzzy math.…

The Malta Exchange by Steve Berry

Book Review: The Malta Exchange by Steve Berry

By Ray Palen

March 19, 2019

In The Malta Exchange by Steve Berry, the pope is dead. A conclave to select his replacement is about to begin. Cardinals are beginning to arrive at the Vatican, but one has fled Rome for Malta in search of a document that dates back to the fourth century and Constantine the Great. The election of…

The Malta Exchange Audiobook

The Malta Exchange: Writer’s Cut Audiobook Excerpt

By Steve Berry

Steve Berry’s latest audiobook is not your typical thriller on audio. In The Malta Exchange, Berry once again teams up with Macmillan Audio to bring listeners an expanded, annotated Writer’s Cut edition of the story. This means that in between chapters read by beloved narrator Scott Brick, Berry himself chimes in with fascinating behind-the-scenes commentary.

Steve Berry’s The Malta Exchange Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

February 11, 2019

A deadly race for the Vatican’s oldest secret fuels Steve Berry’s latest international Cotton Malone thriller, The Malta Exchange. Enter for a chance to win one of 50 advanced copies!

Book-Inspired Cocktails: “Cotton Paloma”

By Crime HQ

March 23, 2018

What do you do when you come across top-secret documents that could change the course of history? Settle your nerves with this week's Pick Your Poison—where we create a cocktail inspired by a recently published mystery, thriller, or crime novel—the “Cotton Paloma” cocktail, inspired by Steve Berry's prequel Cotton Malone thriller, The Bishop's Pawn!

Review: The Bishop’s Pawn by Steve Berry

By Crime HQ

March 23, 2018

The Bishop's Pawn by Steve Berry is the 13th book in the Cotton Malone series (available March 20, 2018). Steve Berry is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author who has more than 20 million books in print, translated into 40 languages. These include 13 novels featuring protagonist Cotton Malone as well as four…

5 New Books to Read this Week: March 20, 2018

By Crime HQ

March 21, 2018

Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! This week, Steve Berry's latest Cotton Malone thriller combines with the final completed Mickey Spillane novel to highlight a killer week…

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