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The Venetian Betrayal | 
 enlarge | Author: Steve Berry
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Category: Book
List Price: £11.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 13530
Media: Paperback
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.5
ISBN: 0340933445
EAN: 9780340933442
ASIN: 0340933445
Publication Date: May 15, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: In mint condition.
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a fast moving gripping yarn that hooks the reader from page one July 25, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have to admit that Steve Berry is fast becoming one of my favourite authors. He just does not disappoint his readers.
No. 6 in the Cotton Malone mysteries is not exception. As in the previous five novels Steve Berry offers the reader a fast moving plot linking present and past. It is a gripping plot from page No. 1 onwards. The plot is slightly weird and amusing: if one puts it very short: a power hungry dyke and head of state who fancied herself as the new Alexander the Great goes for world domination and an HIV cure to save her estranged and HIV infected lover. At the same time an equally power hungry financial cartel tries to dominate the world markets. All before the background of a new super power in Asia. There is enough background to make it not too unrealistic while at the same time keeps it clearly in the realm of a novel.
The chapters are short and easy to read and one simply wants to know what happens next. The main characters are the same as in books 1 to 5 and they develop further, becoming rounder and more human. It is not the so often lovingly portrait US vision of the (male) hero saving all on his own the world. Here it is a team, male and female, strong, but weak as well who fight the evil. But Steve Berry writes in such a way that one does not need to have read the first five novels in order to understand these characters. This novel is sequence but stands as well alone and makes perfect sense.
All in all, I just loved to be entertained by Steve Berry's writing: top notch. I am looking forward to his next novel.
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