The Paris Vendetta

A Novel

By: Steve Berry

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's summary

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “All the Steve Berry hallmarks are here: scale, scope, sweep, history—plus breathless second-by-second suspense. I love this guy.”—Lee Child

Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone wakes to find an intruder in his Copenhagen bookshop: an American Secret Service agent with assassins on his heels. Narrowly surviving a ferocious firefight, the two journey to the secluded estate of Malone’s friend Henrik Thorvaldsen. The wily Danish tycoon has uncovered the insidious plans of the Paris Club, a cabal of multimillionaires bent on manipulating the global economy. But Thorvaldsen also harbors a hidden agenda—a vendetta—that will force Malone to choose between friend and country, past and present. Starting in Denmark, moving to England, and ending up in the storied streets and cathedrals of Paris, Malone is forced to match wits with a terrorist for hire and to plunge into a desperate hunt for Napoleon’s legendary treasure, lost for two hundred years. It’s a breathless game of duplicity and death, all to claim a prize of untold value. But at what cost?

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Steve Berry’s The Columbus Affair and a Cotton Malone dossier.

©2009 Steve Berry (P)2009 Random House

Critic reviews

"Steve Berry always finds intriguing ways to link the past to the present in his fast-paced thrillers. The Paris Vendetta is his best yet."—Harlan Coben

Always great entertainment

I always enjoy the plots (and fact/fiction summary at the end) the characters are fun even if the situations can be over the top, but then that's part of the charm. Nothing bad to say about anything Scott Brick reads.

The best yet of the series

This was an awesome read and story! I was constantly on edge with the suspense and the historical aspects had the perfect affect.

another great story

I love this book it's another great piece to the series of cotton Malone I will say it's a Tadd difficult to keep up with in some parts of the novel but if you listen to it again or read it again you get it.
Thank you Steve for making awesome history novels that contain Fact and fiction.

Confusing

I found the plot very confusing. Several characters weaving in and out. While it came together in the end. I was not spell bound at any point.

Excellent, start to finish, incl narration

I enjoyed this book and the entire Cotton Malone series. It helps to read the series in order. Scott Brick is a superb narrator.

Excellent novel

This is perhaps Berry's best effort in the Cotton Malone series. Thrilling from the get go, most of the story takes place in France during the present day with a story tie-in to the age of Napoleon Bonaparte. Cotton is put in the position of having to support one series friend and betraying the other series friend. The brunt of the story is the usual treasure chase, but in this outing, it is the strength of the characters that shines through. Berry's writing in this series entry is top notch.

The Paris Vendetta - Steve Berry

I really enjoy Steve Berry's books. However, I find the narrator's style of reading distracting and often off-putting. I just would like him to read the book and not interject so many voice inflections and poor attempts at accents. The story stands strongly on its own. It just doesn't need the affectations of the narrator. And, I know he is a popular narrator, he just has never worked for me.

Ok

This was not as attention holding as the other Cotton Malones but I am biased as I am still in search of Mitch Rapp.

Berry deserves a better narrator

While I enjoy Steve Berry's writing, I must agree with other reviewers about the poor voice given to this work. Scott Brick reads each sentence in the same dramatic tone. Whether Cotton is in the middle of an intense shoot-out or if he simply remarks on the weather, the narrator embodies the sentence with the same weight. One wonders whether Brick bothered to read the book at all, even as he reads it to us.

another good Berry

If you like international thrillers based on historical mysteries then you'll like this book.