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The Patriot Threat by Steve Berry
Cotton Malone Series Book #10
3.5★
Once a member of an elite intelligence division within the Justice Department, Malone is now a retired bookshop owner in Denmark. But when his former boss, Stephanie Nelle, 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.I can not even begin to imagine the amount of research that Steve Berry must do
before even begins to write. History fans will love his books as he intertwines actual historical events and characters with his fictional plot... and he does so in a very convincing manner. In this one he attacks the dreaded income tax that was enacted due to the 16th Amendment. He brings in the North Koreans and the Chinese just to make life more difficult for Cotton Malone and Stephanie. The 3.5 stars came about not because the book wasn't interesting but because there was just too much information to absorb. Still a worthwhile read.
