The Lost Order (Cotton Malone Series, Book #15) by Steve Berry
The Lost Order (Cotton Malone Series, Book #15) by Steve Berry
The Knights of the Golden Circle was American history's largest and most dangerous clandestine organization. It amassed billions in stolen gold and silver, all buried in hidden caches across the United States. Since 1865, treasure hunters have searched, but little of that immense wealth has ever been found.
Now, 160 years later, two factions of what remains of the Knights of the Golden Circle want that lost treasure -- one to spend it for their own ends, the other to preserve it.
Former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is thrust into this battle, whose connection to the Knights is far deeper than he ever imagined. At the center is the Smithsonian Institution -- linked to the Knights, its treasure, and Malone himself through an ancestor, a Confederate spy named Angus "Cotton" Adams, whose story holds the key to everything. Complicating matters are the political ambitions of a reckless Speaker of the House and the bitter widow of a United States senator, who are planning radical changes to the country together. And while Malone and Cassiopeia Vitt face the past, ex-president Danny Daniels and Stephanie Nelle confront a new and unexpected challenge, a threat that may cost one of them their life.
From the backrooms of the Smithsonian to the deepest woods in rural Arkansas, and finally up into the rugged mountains of northern New Mexico, The Lost Order is a perilous adventure into our country's dark past and a potentially even darker future.
MINOTAUR BOOKS, SOFTCOVER, 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING, 2018
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