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The Charlemagne Pursuit: A Novel (edition 2009)

by Steve Berry

Series: Cotton Malone (4)

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A mysterious manuscript discovered in the tomb of Charlemagne sends Cotton Malone on a perilous international quest that takes him and twin sisters with their own agenda from an ancient German cathedral to the harsh, unforgiving world of Antarctica in pursuit of the truth about the death of his father on a classified sub mission beneath Antarctica.… (more)
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Title:The Charlemagne Pursuit: A Novel
Authors:Steve Berry
Info:Ballantine Books (2009), Edition: Reprint, Mass Market Paperback, 576 pages
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Rating:**1/2
Tags:Thriller fiction, Antarctica, Europe, USA, submarine disaster, search for lost advanced civilization, Nazi exploration, murder, ploting politicians, twin against twin

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The Charlemagne Pursuit by Steve Berry

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    The Emperor's Tomb by Steve Berry (PghDragonMan)
    PghDragonMan: Cotton Malone, a retired Justice Department operative has more adventures than when on active duty.
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First edition as new
  dgmathis | Mar 16, 2023 |
Antarctica
Bayern
Sibling war
Not as much Charlemagne as I thought
Not as good as the previous books in this series. ( )
  JosephKingman | Jul 17, 2021 |
Cotton Malone gets caught up in unraveling the mysterious disappearance/death of his father and the Navy's cover-up. He gets involved with a crazy German family with warring twin girls and a psychotic mother pitting the two against each other while Washington intrigue has Stephanie Nelle working certain angles of the lost civilization theme. A bit reminiscent of a Clive Cussler/Dirk Pitt novel. ( )
  skipstern | Jul 11, 2021 |
A reasonably good action thriller, but seems to get bogged down a bit in all the political machinations. A little hard to follow with a lot going on and a lot of characters.

I appreciate Steve Berry's usual practice of spending a few pages at the end of the book to separate fact from fiction. ( )
  adam.currey | Nov 20, 2018 |
Cotton's latest adventure has him in pursuit of answers about the death of his father, who supposedly went down with the submarine he was commanding when Cotton was 10. The file has always been classified, but Cotton has used one of the favors he's earned from the government due to his recent exploits to get a copy. He (sorta) teams up with a pair of German sisters who believe their father was also on the sub. Back in the states, Cotton's former boss, Stephanie Nelle is working with one of the president's deputy national security advisers to determine who's going around killing people who were involved with the sub back in the 70's.
Berry's books are full of twists and turns and with the exceptions of Cotton and Stephanie, the reader has no idea who is a 'good guy'. This can be confusing at times. I'm not sure why there need to be so many double, triple and quadruple crosses. I think the subject matter is fascinating enough that extra suspense and intrigue scarcely needs to be artificially manufactured. In previous Cotton Malone books, I have enjoyed more the puzzle-clue-historical context portions of the tale than the running-shooting-blowing up museums and libraries parts. This volume had far more action-y stuff, and that made me less enamored of it, even though I find the historical subject matter of a possibly lost advanced civilization existing somewhere in Antarctica. Also, I wasn't a big fan of the ending, about which the least-spoilery thing I can say is that there were deaths that did not seem necessary.
As always, I love Berry's wrap-ups at the end where he explains what parts of his story are true historical facts and which he made up for the story.
I'm probably done reading these for a while, though. ( )
  EmScape | Sep 24, 2018 |
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Epigraph
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
--Confucius
The Ancient Masters were subtle, mysterious, profound, responsive.
The depth of their knowledge is unfathomable.
Because it is unfathomable, all we can do is describe their appearance.
Watchful, like men crossing a winter stream. Alert, like men aware of danger.
Courteous, like visiting guests. Yielding like ice about to melt.
Simple, like uncarved blocks of wood.
-- Lao-Tzu (604 BCE)
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind.
-- Proverbs 11:29
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For Pam Ahearn and Mark Tavani, Dream makers
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November 1971
The alarm sounded and Forrest Malone came alert.
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A mysterious manuscript discovered in the tomb of Charlemagne sends Cotton Malone on a perilous international quest that takes him and twin sisters with their own agenda from an ancient German cathedral to the harsh, unforgiving world of Antarctica in pursuit of the truth about the death of his father on a classified sub mission beneath Antarctica.

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