tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267514517607458279.post3758269717129231207..comments2024-03-26T05:19:46.841-04:00Comments on A BOOK AND A CHAT RADIO SHOW: A Book and a Chat with Steve BerryAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14606924722814682221noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267514517607458279.post-15603525950691278912012-05-28T06:29:16.541-04:002012-05-28T06:29:16.541-04:00I was delighted to see Steve Berry finally abandon...I was delighted to see Steve Berry finally abandon the increasingly improbable adventures on which he sent hero Cotton Malone and turn instead to what seems like a standalone thriller featuring a kind of anti-hero, disgraced journalist Tom Sagan. About to kill himself, Sagan instead is "persuaded" by some villainous folks to assist them in their quest to retrieve some objects of great value -- in other words, it's typical Berry fare, full of villainous villains, a race to solve a historical mystery that goes on at break-neck speed for 400-plus pages.<br /><br />The plot revolves around the identity of Christopher Columbus and Berry devises a lively and reasonably plausible explanation for all the mysteries that surrounded his life and voyages. It leaps from Florida to Vienna, from Prague to Jamaica, as the nasty creepy villains and Sagan and his shifting cast of allies race to be the first to lay hands on the treasure, objects to which Sagan's family turns out to have a special relationship. Gun shots ring out, there are some homicidal Cuban hounds, political conspiracies, a legend about a golem... You'll enjoy it more if you forget logic and the probability of Berry's theories being true, and just go along for the ride in relatively exotic locales.Sverigehttp://findingselfbelief.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com