The Patriot Threat (Cotton Malone, #10)

Posted on 16 February 2017 by Steve Berry

The 16th Amendment to the Constitution is why Americans pay income taxes But what if there were problems associated with that amendment Secrets that call into question decades of tax collecting In fact, there is a surprising truth to this hidden possibility Cotton Malone, once a member of an elite intelligence division within the Justice Department known as the Magellan Billet, is now retired and owns an old bookshop in Denmark But when his former boss, Stephanie Nelle, asks him to track a rogue North Korean who may have acquired some top secret Treasury Department files the kind that could bring the United States to its knees Malone is vaulted into a harrowing twenty four hour chase that begins on the canals in Venice and ends in the remote highlands of Croatia.With appearances by Franklin Roosevelt, Andrew Mellon, a curious painting that still hangs in the National Gallery of Art, and some eye opening revelations from the 1 bill, this riveting, non stop adventure is trademark Steve Berry 90% historical fact, 10% exciting speculation a provocative thriller posing a dangerous question What if the Federal income tax is illegal Best Read The Patriot Threat (Cotton Malone, #10) Author Steve Berry For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I have been a fan of Steve Berry s Cotton Malone Series for a very long time I really like this series but it s one of those hit and miss for me His latest, The Patriot Threat, the 10th book in that series was sadly a bit of a miss The main plot in this book asks the question What if the 16th Amendment of America s Constitution that allows the government to c...2.5 Steve Berry is back stirring yet another political plot with The Patriot Threat The story revolves around the legitimacy of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, and stolen top secret files from the Treasury Department supporting the theory that not all is as it seems Various interesting morsels are revealed and deemed to be true concerning Andrew Mellon who servedthan ten years as Secretary of Treasury and President Franklin D Roosevelt However, there was repetitive detail thro 2.5 Steve Berry is back stirring yet another political plot with The Patriot Threat The story revolves around the legitimacy of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, and stolen top secret files from the Treasury Department supporting the theory that not all is as it seems Various interesting morsels are revealed and deemed to be true concerning Andrew Mellon who servedthan ten years as Secretary of Treasury and President Franklin D Roosevelt However, there was repetitive detail throughout t...The Patriot Threat by Steve BerryPublished 2015, Minotaur BooksStars Review also posted at Slapdash SundryYup, Steve Berry has done it again He s taken some tidbit of history or politics or religion or economics, and turned it into a full blown adventure action thriller Here s the scoop What would happen to the US of A if it turns out the 16th Amendment, the one that allows for income tax, wasn t ratified properly and was therefore illegal It s this premise that throws Harold Ear The Patriot Threat by Steve BerryPublished 2015, Minotaur BooksStars Review also posted at Slapdash SundryYup, Steve Berry has done it again He s taken some tidbit of history or politics or rel...Berry returns with another explosive novel in the Cotton Malone series Full of interest and intrigue, it will keep the reader pondering key questions well after closing the book s cover During their only face to face meeting on December 31, 1936, Andrew Mellon and FDR discussed their growing animosity towards one another As the conversation disintegrated, Mellon shared that he possessed a few shocking secrets that might stun Roosevelt and cause havoc to the Republic Mellon left the President Berry returns with another explosive novel in the ...Well Researched, Decent Plot Concept Saddled By Mediocre Execution Let me start by saying that I have not, to date, been a big fan of Steve Berry, as I ve found him to be one of those hit or miss authors withof his books being misses than hits for me However, because I mostly enjoyed Berry s last book, The Lincoln Myth, I decided to give The Patriot Threat a read Overall, I found it, in typical Berry fashion, to be well researched with an interesting plot concept but, also typical, Well Researched, Decent Plot Concept Saddled By Mediocre Execution Let me start by saying that I have not, to date, been a big fan of Steve Berry, as I ve found him to be one of those hit or miss authors withof his books being misses than hits for me However, because I mostly enjoyed Berry s last book, The Lincoln Myth, I decided to give The Patriot Threat a read Overall, I found it, in typical Berry fashion, to be well researched with an interesting plot concept but, also typical, I found Berry s execution of what had the potential to be a very entertaining story to be marred by mediocre writing and weak character development.Without getting into the details of the plot which can be gotten from thebook description above ...The Patriot Threat by Steve Berry is the tenth in his Cotton Malone series and can easily be read as a stand alone book I have read and reviewed two other Cotton Malone books and this one is my favorite In The Patriot Threat, Berry looks at the 16th Amendment to the Constitution and begs the question of what if Federal Income Tax is actually illegal Cotton Malone is now retired from the intelligence division of the Justice Department, the Magellan Billet, living in Denmark, and the owner of a The Patriot Threat by Steve Berry is the tenth in his Cotton Malone series and can easily be read as a stand alone book I have read and reviewed two other Cotton Malone books and this one is my favori...The best part of this book to me was the concept that President Reagan and the Pope plotted the destruction of the USSR It explains so much about the Star Wars program The author asserts there really was a private meeting between the two men and the discussion is still a secret A big secret since both men are now dead but this is Berry s jump off point for this installment in the Cotton Malone series The thing I enjoy about his books are the mixture of fact and fiction of events in history The best part of this book to me was the concept that President Reagan and the Pope plotted the destruction of the USSR It explains so much about the Star Wars program The author asserts there really was a private meeting between the two men and the discussion is still a secret A big secret since both men are now dead but this is Berry s jump off point for this installment in the Cotton Malone series The thing I enjoy about his books are the mixture of fact and fiction of events in history I have learned a great deal about them as they are really well researched This one deals with recent history, the Cold War There is the usual action, car chases, fires, shooting, slitting of people s throats ...The retired Cotton Malone gets a babysitting assignment for a fugitive, and stumbles into a political powerplay in North Korea, with a disgraced Kim family member trying to recover his ascendancy Various U.S government agencies seem to be working at cross purposes to try to preclude an attempt to discredit eliminate the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, allowing for income taxation, which would essentially destroy the U.S economy I wish Cotton would either forget Cassiopeia Vitt or go afte The retired Cotton Malone gets a babysitt...International Intrigue Based on Secrets from American HistoryIn 1913 Philander Knox stated that 33 states had ratified the 16th Amendment to the Constitution giving the US the ability to collect income taxes However, the ratification was problematic In the 1930 s the antagonism between Andrew Melon and FDR came to a head just before Melon died He challenged FDR to follow the clues he had laid out to learn about two great secrets from America s past, one relating to the ratification of the 16t International Intrigue Based on Secrets from American HistoryIn 1913 Philander Knox stated that 33 states had ratified the 16th Amendment to the Constitution giving the US the ability to collect income t...THE PATRIOT THREAT, like all of Steve Berry s novels, is utterly brilliant Meticulously detailed and researched each of these historical thrillers in the Cotton Malone series have a chilling plausibility Enough so to keep you up at night wondering what if.The Patriot Threat in this one goes back to a revenge threat made by Andrew Mellon to FDR Mellon, a self proclaimed Patriot, claimed to have proof that the 16th Amendment pertaining to the creation of Income Tax was never legally rati THE PATRIOT THREAT, like all of Steve Berry s novels, is utterly brilliant Meticulously detailed and researched each of these historical thrillers in the Cot...

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16 February 2017

Steve Berry