The Paris vendetta

Summary: When Napoleon Bonaparte died, he took to the grave a powerful secret. He had stolen immeasurable riches, and his British captors hoped to learn where the loot lay hidden. But he told them nothing, and in his will he made no mention of the treasure. Or did he? Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone is about to find out when trouble comes knocking at his Copenhagen bookshop in the form of an American Secret Service agent with a pair of assassins on his heels. Malone has his doubts about the man, but narrowly surviving a ferocious firefight convinces him to follow his unexpected new ally. Their first stop is the estate of Henrik Thorvaldsen, who has uncovered the insidious plans of the Paris Club, a cabal of multimillionaires bent on manipulating the global economy. Only by matching wits with a terrorist-for-hire, foiling a catastrophic attack, and plunging into a desperate hunt for Napoleon's legendary lost treasure can Malone hope to avert international financial anarchy. But Thorvaldsen's real objective is far more personal: to avenge the murder of his son by the larcenous aristocrat at the heart of the conspiracy. Thorvaldsen's vendetta places Malone in an impossible quandry -- one that forces him to choose between friend and country, past and present.

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