Book Discussion : The Malta Exchange by Steve Berry

This is the group for the book discussion by the Mystery and Suspense Group of The Malta Exchange by Steve Berry which is Book 14 in the Cotton Malone Series.

All are welcome to join in the discussion, but please ensure that you do not leave any spoilers if you finish the book before Monday 15th May when others will be reading the final section.

Schedule

Thursday 14th March : Prologue, Chapter One - Ten
Friday 15th March : Chapter Eleven - Twenty
Saturday 16th March : Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty-Two
Sunday 17th March : Chapter Thirty-Three - Forty-Six
Monday 18th March : Chapter Forty-Seven - Sixty
Tuesday 19th March : Chapter Sixty-One - Seventy-Three

Synopsis (From www.steveberry.org)

Cotton Malone’s first case.

History notes that the ugly feud between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, Jr., marked by years of illegal surveillance and the accumulation of secret files, ended on April 4, 1968, when King was assassinated by James Earl Ray.

But that may not have been the case.

Now, fifty years later, former Justice Department agent, Cotton Malone, must reckon with the truth of what really happened that fateful day in Memphis.

It all turns on an incident from eighteen years ago, when Malone, as a young Navy lawyer, is trying hard not to live up to his burgeoning reputation as a maverick. When Stephanie Nelle, a high-level Justice Department lawyer, enlists him to help with an investigation, he jumps at the opportunity. But he soon discovers that two opposing forces—the Justice Department and the FBI—are at war over a rare coin and a cadre of secret files containing explosive revelations about the King assassination, information that could ruin innocent lives and threaten the legacy of the civil rights movement’s greatest martyr.

Malone’s decision to see it through to the end —— from the raucous bars of Mexico, to the clear waters of the Dry Tortugas, and ultimately into the halls of power within Washington D.C. itself —— not only changes his own life, but the course of history.