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The Alexandria Link (2007)

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If you enjoyed the first book in the Cotton Malone series ([b:The Templar Legacy|75024|The Templar Legacy (Cotton Malone, #1)|Steve Berry|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170871321s/75024.jpg|1703824]), then you should read this one as well. All the things I loved about book one have been given the Chef Emeril BAM! treatment:

1. Body count. (When will folks realize that the wages of a minion usually include a lethal dose of lead?)

2. Philosophy. (Except when they're being shot at, characters always have time to discuss the meaning of life.)

3. Travel. (Loved that the quest was to find the lost Library of Alexandria.)

Plus an added bonus in this one...revenge on the annoying ex-spouse. (Heh-heh. Come on, you know you wish you could do what Cotton does on p.354) ( )
  KatLowe | Apr 3, 2013 |
I struggled my way to page 196 of this Dan Brown wanna be. It's unnecessarily complex and contains a series of totally un-engaging and unbelievable characters. It's not enough to have a religiously inspired intrigue: you have to have a plot and some characters to care about if you want people to read 527 pages. ( )
  bsquaredinoz | Mar 31, 2013 |
I abandoned this book at about the 60% mark. As far as I can tell, there wasn't anything glaringly wrong with the book. Political intrigue just isn't my cuppa tea.

At the latest twist in the twist that twisted the twist, I decided that I really didn't care if the Vice President was undermining the President and the Attorney General was (figuratively) in bed with both the "Zionists" and the Palestinians and was there a mole and apparently "good guys" don't have to sleep which is a good thing because someone's always trying to shoot them but maybe they aren't really the good guys after all.

Yeah. That's about how much sense it made to me. The concept of finding the Library of Alexandria is something I could really sink my teeth into, but this book isn't the one that's going to get my imagination fired up.

The reader of this audio book was okay, though I think his talents could have been better used. There are a LOT of accents to be read. He does most of them fairly well, but sometimes has problems maintaining them. At one point or another, whether the character is from Georgia USA or from Denmark, they're going to end up sounding like a Kiwi - even if it's for just one sentence. It's hard to maintain that many accents. Add to that the reader's attempt to differentiate characters by giving them a nasal or otherwise recognizable speech style - he gave it a good shot, but I would have preferred that he let me do the accents/speech styles in my head, rather than be jarred when they weren't consistent. ( )
  FiberBabble | Mar 30, 2013 |
I was initially enthralled with the book, but the writing unfortunately broke down. It became more Raiders of the Lost Ark and Dirk Pitt rather than the potential it started out with. I got lost and disinterested in the Washington DC storyline -- it really didn't lend to what I saw should have been the focus. Would have been much better if the government angle was kept to more of a minimum like in the Altman Code.

There was in my mind a lot of cut and paste when it came to historical biblical personalities -- sort of like the author wanted to fit it in but really didn't want to write about it. ( )
  skraft001 | Oct 21, 2012 |
Good read! Lot's of plot twists. Lot's of interesting background and research. ( )
  EctopicBrain | Jul 31, 2012 |
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"History is the distillation of evidence surviving the past." Oscar Handlin, Truth in History (1979)

"Since the first Adam who beheld the night and the day and the shape of his own hand, men have made up stories and have fixed in stone, in metal, or on parchment whatever the world includes or dreams create. Here is the fruit of their labor: the Library...The faithless say that if it were to burn, history would burn with it. They are wrong. Unceasing human work gives birth to this infinity of books. If of them all not even one remained, man would again beget each page and every line." Jorge Luis Borges, regarding the Library of Alexandria
"Libraries are the memory of mankind." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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For Katie and Kevin, Two Shooting Stars, who drifted back into my orbit
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George Haddad's patience ended as he glared at the man bound to the chair.
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Cotton Malone retired from the high-risk world of elite operatives for the U.S. Justice Department to lead the low-key life of a rare-book dealer. But his quiet existence is shattered when he receives an anonymous e-mail: “You have something I want. You’re the only person on earth who knows where to find it. Go get it. You have 72 hours. If I don’t hear from you, you will be childless.” His horrified ex-wife confirms that the threat is real: Their teenage son has been kidnapped. When Malone’s Copenhagen bookshop is burned to the ground, it becomes brutally clear that those responsible will stop at nothing to get what they want. And what they want is nothing less than the lost Library of Alexandria.

A cradle of ideas–historical, philosophical, literary, scientific, and religious–the Library of Alexandria was unparalleled in the world. But fifteen hundred years ago, it vanished into the mists of myth and legend–its vast bounty of wisdom coveted ever since by scholars, fortune hunters, and those who believe its untold secrets hold the key to ultimate power.

Now a cartel of wealthy international moguls, bent on altering the course of history, is desperate to breach the library’s hallowed halls–and only Malone possesses the information they need to succeed. At stake is an explosive ancient document with the potential not only to change the destiny of the Middle East but to shake the world’s three major religions to their very foundations.

Pursued by a lethal mercenary, Malone crosses the globe in search of answers. His quest will lead him to England and Portugal, even to the highest levels of American government–and the shattering outcome, deep in the Sinai desert, will have worldwide repercussions.


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Cotton Malone's teenage son has been kidnapped, and an anonymous e-mail from those responsible proves they will stop at nothing to get their hands on a coveted prize: the legendary lost Library of Alexandria, which vanished 1,500 years ago.

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