The Lost Order

Berry Steve

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Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition

Description: 493 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The Lost Order continues renowned New York Times top 5 bestseller Steve Berrys Cotton Malone series with another riveting, history-based thriller. The Knights of the Golden Circle, founded on July 4, 1854, was the largest, most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It formulated grand plansto expand the United States, change the constitutional landscape, and forge a Southern empire, enslaving a ‘golden circle spanning two continents. To finance its goals, the Order amassed an amazing trove of stolen gold and silver, which they buried in hidden caches across the United States. Treasure hunters have searched for decades, but have never found any of the Orders major hoards.Now, 160 years later, the knights still exist. Two factions within the Order want the treasureone to spend it, the other to preserve it. Thrust into that civil war is former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone.Starting with a hunt for clues inside the Smithsonian Institution, Malone discovers that an ancestor within his own family may hold the key to everything: a Confederate spy named Owen “Cotton Payne. Complicating matters further are the political ambitions of a ruthless Speaker of the House and the widow of a United States Senator, who have plans of their ownplans that conflict in every way with the Order.From the quiet back rooms of the Smithsonian, to the dangers of rural Arkansas, and finally into the rugged mountains of northern New Mexico, The Lost Order is a perilous adventure into our countrys dark past, and a potentially darker future.

ISBN: 9781444795493

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