Le chiavi del potere (Le avventure di Cotton Malone #Libro 08) - The King's Deception (with bonus novella The Tudor Plot): A Novel

Steve Berry

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2018

418 páginas

13h 56m

ISBN-13: 9788850251315

Londra, 1547. Non gli resta molto da vivere, ormai lo ha capito. Perciò Enrico VIII caccia dalla stanza tutti i medici di corte e chiama accanto a sé Caterina Parr, la sua sesta e ultima moglie. Solo a lei può confidare l’oscuro segreto dei Tudor...

Londra, oggi. Sembra un incarico semplice: di ritorno a Copenhagen col figlio Gary, Cotton Malone deve fare scalo in Inghilterra per consegnare alle autorità Ian Dunne, un ragazzino inglese scappato in America. E invece quella formalità si trasforma subito in un incubo: non appena atterrano all’aeroporto di Heathrow, i tre vengono coinvolti in una sparatoria e, approfittando della confusione, Ian fugge, mentre Gary viene portato via a forza da un gruppo di uomini. Eppure non era lui il vero obiettivo dei rapitori, che infatti propongono uno scambio: la vita di Gary per Ian Dunne. Ma perché tanto interesse per un ladruncolo qualunque? Pronto a tutto pur di scoprire la verità e salvare il figlio, Cotton si mette sulle tracce di Ian e, ben presto, si renderà conto che quel ragazzino in realtà è la chiave per scoprire un segreto antichissimo, un segreto che affonda le radici all’epoca della dinastia Tudor e che potrebbe cambiare per sempre gli equilibri geopolitici del mondo...

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.