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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSteve Berry returns with his latest thriller a Cotton Malone adventure involving a flaw in the United States Constitution a mystery about Abraham Lincoln and a political issue thatrsquos as explosive as it is timelymdashnot only in Malonersquos world but in ours September All is not as it seems With these cryptic words a shocking secret passed down from president to president comes to rest in the hands of Abraham Lincoln And as the first bloody clashes of the Civil War unfold Lincoln alone must decide how best to use this volatile knowledge save thousands of American lives or keep the young nation from being torn apart forever The present In Utah the fabled remains of Mormon pioneers whose nineteenth-century expedition across the desert met with a murderous end have been uncovered In Washington DC the official investigation of an international entrepreneur an elder in the Mormon church has sparked a political battle between the White House and a powerful United States senator In Denmark a Justice Department agent missing in action has fallen into the hands of a dangerous zealotmdasha man driven by divine visions to make a prophetrsquos words reality And in a matter of a few short hours Cotton Malone has gone from quietly selling books at his shop in Denmark to dodging bullets in a high-speed boat chase All it takes is a phone call from his former boss in Washington and suddenly the ex-agent is racing to rescue an informant carrying critical intelligence Itrsquos just the kind of perilous business that Malone has been trying to leave behind ever since he retired from the Justice Department But once he draws enemy blood Malone is plunged into a deadly conflictmdasha constitutional war secretly set in motion more than two hundred years ago by Americarsquos Founding Fathers From the streets of Copenhagen to the catacombs of Salzburg to the rugged mountains of Utah the grim specter of the Civil War looms as a dangerous conspiracy gathers power Malone risks life liberty and his greatest love in a race for the truth about Abraham Lincolnmdashwhile the fate of the United States of America hangs in the balancePraise for Steve Berry and his Cotton Malone series ldquoIn Malone Steve Berry has created a classic complex herordquomdashUSA Today ldquoMalone a hero with a personal stake in the proceedings is a welcome respite from the cold calculating superspies who litter the genrerdquomdashEntertainment Weekly ldquoSteve Berry gets better and better with each new bookrdquomdashThe Huffington Post ldquoSavvy readers cannot go wrong with Cotton MalonerdquomdashLibrary Journal ldquoBerry raises this genrersquos stakesrdquomdashThe New York Times ldquoI love this guyrdquomdash New York Times bestselling author Lee ChildFrom the Hardcover edition.