Patriot Threat
Book - 2015
Steve Berry's New York Times bestseller, The Patriot Threat , finds Cotton Malone racing to stop a rogue ex-KGB agent plotting revenge against the United States.
The 16th Amendment to the Constitution is why Americans pay income taxes. But what if there were problems associated with that amendment? Secrets that call into question decades of tax collecting? In fact, there is a surprising truth to this hidden possibility.
Cotton Malone, once a member of an elite intelligence division within the Justice Department known as the Magellan Billet, is now retired and owns an old bookshop in Denmark. But when his former-boss, Stephanie Nelle, asks him to track a rogue North Korean who may have acquired some top secret Treasury Department files--the kind that could bring the United States to its knees--Malone is vaulted into a harrowing twenty-four hour chase that begins on the canals in Venice and ends in the remote highlands of Croatia.
With appearances by Franklin Roosevelt, Andrew Mellon, a curious painting that still hangs in the National Gallery of Art, and some eye-opening revelations from the $1 bill, this riveting, non-stop adventure is trademark Steve Berry--90% historical fact, 10% exciting speculation--a provocative thriller posing a dangerous question: What if the Federal income tax is illegal?
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Add a Quote... in the short voyage of a lifetime, we can see the eddies and ripples on the surface, but not the under-currents changing the main channel of the stream.
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Add a CommentPleasant to read with the financial portion difficult to comprehend. Liked the way it ended even though Cotton Malone's role was not as significant.
Don't understand how folks can review a book if they didn't finish it.
This book was better than the last 4 Dan Brown travelogs.
I've read all Steve berry's books and found Lincoln myth and this one not really to my liking. Still liked all the history to them, but in patriot threat, Malone didn't seem to play a big part and was rather "dull." Liked that Luke had more of a position but found the last two books hard to get through. Hopefully the 14th colony and lost order will be better. Overall have enjoyed the series and the history.
I couldn't connect with this story and I didn't finish it.
I loved doing my own research on the history of the United States' federal income tax. However, being a descendant of a Korean war refugee. I was taken aback by Kim Il Sung's quote on the front page.
I really enjoyed this book. I thought the characters were more interesting and the plot was less "chaotic" than in some of his books. As always, the historical information was quite interesting!
Income tax mystery, seriously?? This book is about as much fun as an audit. Hard to finish this thing, not sure if I will. Berry is usually entertaining, but this is just dull. Pages of government memos on taxes and so on. I hope he hasn't run out of good ideas. And the critics reviews above, how much did they get paid to write that nonsense?
I couldn't finish this piece of trash.
Left a bad taste in my mouth. Secondary characters were mostly unpleasant. Main character Malone seemed flat. Hoped for better from this series, which I usually enjoy. I couldn't get too excited about the tax storyline.
This not one of Berry's best. It was hard for me not to close this book and return it before finishing the first half. 70% of the first half read like a travel log, ugh! The last sixty pages was a Berry book you hoped to read.