Berry, Steve - Cotton Malone 02 - The Alexandria Link by Berry Steve

Author:Berry, Steve [Berry, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Historical, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Religion, Adventure
ISBN: 9780340899274
Amazon: B000OI0FNK
Barnesnoble: B000OI0FNK
Goodreads: 7113597
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2007-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Sabre was adjusting to the personality of Jimmy McCollum. The name itself was another matter. He hadn’t used it in a long time but thought it prudent, given that Malone might well check him out. If so, he would appear in army records. There was a birth certificate, Social Security card, and little more, because he’d changed his name once he moved to Europe. Dominick Sabre added a note of confidence and mystique. The men who’d hired him knew little but his name, so it was important that the label convey the right allure. He’d come across it in a German cemetery, an aristocrat who died in the 1800s.

Now he was Jimmy McCollum again.

His mother named him James, after her father, whom he’d called Big Daddy—one of the few males in his life who’d shown him respect. He never knew his own father, nor did he believe that his mother actually knew which one of her lovers could be blamed. Though she’d been a good mother and treated him with kindness, she’d been a dismal woman, drifting from man to man, marrying three times, and squandering her money. He left home when he was eighteen to join the army. She’d wanted him to go to college, but academics didn’t interest him. Instead, like his mother, opportunity was what drew him.

Unlike her, though, he’d managed to seize every one that had come his way.

The army. Special forces. Europe. The Chairs.

For sixteen years he’d labored for others, doing their bidding, accepting their tokens, satisfied with their meager praise.

Now it was time to labor for himself.

Risky? Certainly.

But the Circle respected power, admired cleverness, and negotiated only with strength. He wanted a membership. Perhaps even a Chair. Even more, if the lost Library of Alexandria contained what Alfred Hermann believed, he might well be able to affect the world.

That meant Power.

In his hands.

He had to find the library.

And the man sitting across the aisle on the TAP flight from London to Lisbon was going to lead the way.

Cotton Malone and his ex-wife had solved the first part of the hero’s quest in only a few minutes. He was confident they could decipher the rest and, once that was done, he’d eliminate them both.

But he wasn’t stupid. Malone would certainly be wary.

He’d just have to be unpredictable.

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