The Alexandria Link (original 2007; edition 2007)

by Steve Berry (Author)

Series: Cotton Malone (2)

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Too bad former secret agent Cotton Malone knows how to unearth the lost contents of the Library of Alexandria; now his bookstore has been ransacked and his son kidnapped.

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Title:	The Alexandria Link
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Info:	Ballantine (2007), Edition: First Edition, 544 pages
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Not as good as the other Berry works I have read. But still a fun read, especially for librarians and Bible history nerds. (

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Colleen.Greene | Dec 17, 2023 |

A fun, fast paced read. Great action and a really intriguing storyline about the Library of Alexandria. I was glad to see the return of so many characters from the first novel, and expect to see more of them in the rest of the series. This story sucked me in, and kept me reading up to the end. (

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PurplOttr | Dec 1, 2023 |

Listened to this on audio and perhaps that was a mistake. The story was interesting enough to keep me listening, but by the end of the story I was ready to dig my ears out. (

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Kim.Sasso | Aug 27, 2023 |

First edition as new

dgmathis | Mar 16, 2023 |

The story has lots of exciting twists and turns. However, the only negative was the misunderstanding of religion. The story correctly points out the problems in the world that incorrect, fanatic zealots have caused over the centuries. But this leads the uninformed reader to believe that all religious people are likewise wrong. This book is a work of fiction - and a very good one. Too many people, that I know, take stories like this as documentaries of our culture. That's too bad. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
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Brick, Scott	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Cotton Malone (2)

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The Cotton Malone Series 7-Book Bundle: The Templar Legacy, The Alexandria Link, The Venetian Betrayal, The Charlemagne Pursuit, The Paris Vendetta, The Emperor's Tomb, The Jefferson Key by Steve Berry

The Cotton Malone Collection: Books 1-4 by Steve Berry

The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle by Steve Berry

The templar legacy The Alexandria link, The venetian betrayal, The Charlemagne pursuit, The Paris vendetta, The emperor's tomb, The Jefferson key by Steve Berry

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New York Times bestseller (Fiction – 2007)

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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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