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THE VENETIAN BETRAYAL: A NOVEL (COTTON MALONE)
by Berry, Steve
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0345485777
- ISBN 13
- 9780345485779
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Ballantine Books. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 2007. Stated First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0345485777 . Book is Very Good - (minus). First Edition with complete number line. Clean and unmarked text. Strong and sturdy binding. Very slight spine end crimps. Very slight forward lean to binding. Back cover front end single very light bump. Front end paper has light pencil inscription. Slight wrinkle bend mark to few bottom page edges on few pages near font of book. Page 47 top corner of page bent - large corner. DJ is very good. Light bumping and very light wear to DJ cover corners and edges. Very light surface shelf wear to DJ cover. ; 473 pages .
Synopsis
In 323 B.C.E, having conquered Persia, Alexander the Great set his sights on Arabia, then suddenly succumbed to a strange fever. Locating his final resting place--unknown to this day--remains a tantalizing goal for both archaeologists and treasure hunters. Now the quest for this coveted prize is about to heat up. And Cotton Malone--former U.S. Justice Department agent turned rare-book dealer--will be drawn into an intense geopolitical chess game. After narrowly escaping incineration in a devastating fire that consumes a Danish museum, Cotton learns from his friend, the beguiling adventurer Cassiopeia Vitt, that the blaze was neither an accident nor an isolated incident. As part of campaign of arson intended to mask a far more diabolical design, buildings across Europe are being devoured by infernos of unnatural strength.And from the ashes of the U.S.S.R., a new nation has arisen: Former Soviet republics have consolidated into the Central Asian Federation. At its helm is Supreme Minister Irina Zovastina, a cunning despot with a talent for politics, a taste for blood sport, and the single-minded desire to surpass Alexander the Great as history's ultimate conqueror. Backed by a secret cabal of powerbrokers, the Federation has amassed a harrowing arsenal of biological weapons. Equipped with the hellish power to decimate other nations at will, only one thing keeps Zovastina from setting in motion her death march of domination: a miraculous healing serum, kept secret by an ancient puzzle and buried with the mummified remains of Alexander the Great--in a tomb lost to the ages for more than 1,500 years.Together, Cotton and Cassiopeia must outrun and outthink the forces allied against them. Their perilous quest will take them to the shores of Denmark, deep into the venerated monuments of Venice, and finally high inside the desolate Pamir mountains of Central Asia to unravel a riddle whose solution could destroy or save millions of people--depending on who finds the lost tomb first.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Never Enough Stuff
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4252
- Title
- THE VENETIAN BETRAYAL: A NOVEL (COTTON MALONE)
- Author
- Berry, Steve
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Stated First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0345485777
- ISBN 13
- 9780345485779
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- 0345485777
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions/First Printings; Fiction;
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