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The Alexandria Link

Author: Steve Berry
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

4 reviews
Sales Rank: 34538

Media: Paperback
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.4 x 1.6

ISBN: 0340899298
EAN: 9780340899298
ASIN: 0340899298

Publication Date: December 13, 2007
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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars

Entertaining but predictable February 10, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

There's always a point in a Steve Berry novel where you can see exactly how things are going to pan out, and here it's particularly early on. Perhaps it's just that I've read a few similar books recently, but I found most of the plot twists pretty clearly telegraphed.

And when Steve Berry introduces the hero's estranged ex-wife, there's a feeling we've been here before and you just know that before long they'll come to rediscover their love for each other despite themselves.

Still, putting that to one side, this is a reasonably entertaining treasure hunt/ancient conspiracy novel. This time we have some lost texts saved from the Library at Alexandria, with a link to the Poussin paintings.

5 out of 5 stars

Book No 5 by Steven Berry deserves 5 stars February 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I have read all of Steve Berry's thrillers. Steven Berry had become better and better with each of his novels. And "The Alexandria Link" is no exception from this rule. From page one the reader gets hooked and swept into the story. There is not a single moment of boredom waiting for you, the story develops sytematically and the surprises are not coming out of the blue. The personalities are well descripted, develop from the presvious book and one feels very comfortable with them. One can understand. Till the very last the suspense is kept.

I would love to have given it more than 5 stars....

You will enjoy this book!!!

2 out of 5 stars

The Alexandra (Weakest) Link. January 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I have not read any of the other Steve Berry books, however as you probably realise this is very much a Da Vinci Code style story.

The plot is based on a retired secret service agent tiring to find the lost Library of Alexandria, as there are supposedly hidden scripts that can have a profound effect upon religious views of the world. There is of course a secret society with powerful members that is also involved with the library search as well as other very high political games happening in the background.

The plot moves too fast it somehow never seems get familiar with the surroundings. The characters have been in previous books and never really get familiar with the reader. Most of the revelations in the book are revealed too gradually so it never really delivers this great revelling moment. Also there isn't much of a secrecy or mystery as most of the characters motives are established quite early on in the book.

There are some interesting issues about the Bible that are raised that do prompt you to look further in to them and wonder what will happen if it was really like this. Also some interesting places are visited in the book that can be of interest, but as mentioned the text rushes through them.
Also the secret quest is pathetic so easy I could have solved it at home with the internet. (sorry)
Overall a weak link.

4 out of 5 stars

Fast Moving Action December 6, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

Steve Berry lives on the Georgia coast in Camden County. He's a lawyer who, for twenty-five years, has helped people both in and out of the courtroom.

The author has come up with what I believe is another first rate adventure novel, that places his main character Cotton Malone and his family in grave danger. Cotton is faced with a baffling truth, long ago taken from the shelves of the greatest library ever assembled in one place, the legendary library of Alexandria.

The library stood for over 600 years and in its prime held virtually all of the knowledge known to man at that time. Fifteen hundred years ago it vanished without leaving a trace. Rumours abound about what happened to the building and its contents. Some say that the Romans set fire to it during a naval battle, but no trace of the library has ever been found.

When Cotton Malone's ex-wife appears on his doorstep, panicking because their son has been kidnapped and then minutes later Malone's bookshop is attacked, all because he is the only living being who knows the whereabouts of the Alexandria link, the key to locating the missing library. But finding that lost key could have grave consequences not only for Malone but for the balance of world power.