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.…
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…
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.
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!
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!
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…
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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The Bishop's Pawn by Steve Berry is the 13th book in the Cotton Malone series (available March 20, 2018). History notes that the ugly feud between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King Jr., marked by years of illegal surveillance and the accumulation of secret files, ended on April 4, 1968, when King was assassinated…
What happens if both the president and vice-president-elect die before taking the oath of office? The answer is far from certain—in fact, what follows would be nothing short of total political chaos. Get a digital copy of Steve Berry's 11th Cotton Malone thriller, The 14th Colony, for only $2.99 through February 5th! Shot down over…
