The Patriot Threat
- Authors: Steve Berry
- Series: Book 10 in the Cotton Malone series
- Genres: Thriller
- Rank:Top 300 in Best Espionage Thrillers Books on AmazonTop 1000 in Best Historical Thrillers Books on AmazonTop 1000 in Best Political Thrillers Books on Amazon
- Rating: 4.3 based on 5,009 reviews
- Release Date: March 31, 2015
- Print length: 400 pages (Hardcover)
About the book
Steve Berry's New York Times bestseller, The Patriot Threat, finds Cotton Malone racing to stop a rogue ex-KGB agent plotting revenge against the United States.
The 16th Amendment to the Constitution is the reason why Americans are required to pay income taxes. However, imagine if there were issues connected to that amendment? Hidden secrets that cast doubt on years of tax collection? In reality, there is a surprising truth to this veiled potential.
Cotton Malone, formerly a part of the Magellan Billet - an elite intelligence unit in the Justice Department, is now retired and runs a bookshop in Denmark. Yet, when his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, tasks him with pursuing a rogue North Korean believed to have obtained classified Treasury Department documents - ones that could severely impact the United States - Malone embarks on a tense twenty-four hour pursuit starting in the canals of Venice and concluding in the remote Croatian highlands.
Featuring Franklin Roosevelt, Andrew Mellon, an intriguing painting that still hangs in the National Gallery of Art, and startling revelations from the $1 bill, this gripping, action-packed escapade embodies Steve Berry's signature style - 90% based on historical fact, 10% thrilling speculation - a thought-provoking thriller that poses a risky question: Is it possible that the Federal income tax is unlawful?
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