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O carte de aventuri modernă. Inspirată din aventurile corsarilor și piraților de altă dată, avem o aventură din zilele noastre cu corsari moderni, conspirații și documente secrete vechi de sute de ani. M-a surprins modul de scrie, așa trebuie să arate un roman care are o poveste de spus. Îmbinarea d Leggi tutto

Ugh. I sometimes (often!) wonder how my opinion of a particular book differs so radically from the mainstream view. ? Different tastes, I guess. Anyway, no - I really didn't like this book at all. It irritated me no end. This is one of those 'DaVinci' genre books, complete with all the trimmings: a

Cotton Malone! I just love these books. Cotton is amazing. You learn something about history and the world and it's super exciting! And this book was just as great as the others - BUT ... there was a bit too much Pirate stuff in there. It was just too much. There are also too many people telling the s Leggi tutto

As always, Steve Berry spins one hell of a yarn! For this book, Berry has set his story inside the U.S. and involves the earliest years of the country, when there was no military. Instead the founding fathers offered letters of mark to four individuals - either privateers or pirates, depending who yo Leggi tutto

Steve Berry's "The Jefferson Key," mixes history and fiction to produce a story that is interesting and intriguing. Cotton Malone, former Justice Dept. operative, is summoned to New York only to be caught up in an attempt on the President's life. He manages to stop the assassination and realizes that Leggi tutto

I have always enjoyed Steve Berry's style of fast paced writing, he keeps the story moving along really well. I did, however, struggle a little with this entry in the Cotton Malone series, as it is not so much an adventure this time around as a struggle to protect the President from an historical th Leggi tutto