The bishop's pawn / Steve Berry.
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- ISBN: 9781250140234
- ISBN: 1250140234
- Physical Description: 1 online resource.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Minotaur Books, 2018.
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Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from READ title page (OverDrive, viewed March 26, 2018). |
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Subject: | Malone, Cotton (Fictitious character) > Fiction. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 > Assassination > Fiction. Ray, James Earl, 1928-1998 > Fiction. |
Genre: | Political fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) Historical fiction. Electronic books. |
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- Baker & Taylor
Former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone uncovers a disturbing link between a case from his past and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. that risks innocent lives and threatens the legacy of the Civil Rights movement's iconic martyr. By the best-selling author ofThe 14th Colony . - Macmillan School
The first case of New York Times bestseller Steve Berryâs iconic hero, Cotton Malone.
History notes that the ugly feud between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, Jr., marked by years of illegal surveillance and the accumulation of secret files, ended on April 4, 1968 when King was assassinated by James Earl Ray. But that may not have been the case.
Now, fifty years later, former Justice Department agent, Cotton Malone, must reckon with the truth of what really happened that fateful day in Memphis.
It all turns on an incident from eighteen years ago, when Malone, as a young Navy lawyer, is trying hard not to live up to his burgeoning reputation as a maverick. When Stephanie Nelle, a high-level Justice Department lawyer, enlists him to help with an investigation, he jumps at the opportunity. But he soon discovers that two opposing forcesâthe Justice Department and the FBIâare at war over a rare coin and a cadre of secret files containing explosive revelations about the King assassination, information that could ruin innocent lives and threaten the legacy of the civil rights movementâs greatest martyr.
Maloneâs decision to see it through to the end ââ from the raucous bars of Mexico, to the clear waters of the Dry Tortugas, and ultimately into the halls of power within Washington D.C. itself ââ not only changes his own life, but the course of history.
Steve Berry always mines the lost riches of history ââ in The Bishop's Pawn he imagines a gripping, provocative thriller about an American icon.