The Charlemagne Pursuit
The fourth Cotton Malone adventure from Steve Berry. What is interesting here are the changes Berry makes to the content with two main supporting characters from the first three books conspicuous by their absence. Deliberate ploy to freshen things up I do not know but the characters that were included more than made up for the original two’s absence.
In 1971 a top-secret US submarines disappears in the Antarctic. Nobody survives and the US government does not search for the submarine. Instead they report the submarines disappearance as having taken place in the Atlantic and set up an investigation into that happening. The findings are then classified and hidden away from public gaze. The father of Cotton Malone was commander of the submarine.
Almost forty years later Cotton manages to get access to the investigation paperwork and immediately all hell breaks loose. Individuals within the US navy want the report back under lock and key and are willing to kill in order to achieve it. However not all US personnel see it the same way and see this as an opportunity to shed light on a mystery that has remained unsolved for many years.
When you also include a German family with a historical link to the Nazis who will do anything to find out what happened to the submarine you have a fast paced action thriller that in my view does not disappoint. All parties in the quest soon realise that it is not just the events of the last forty years that are paramount. Could the submarine have been following clues from a learned advisor of medieval Frankish king Charlemagne? Was the submarine in Antarctica because it was looking for something?
Berry knows how to tell a story well. Weaving together a mixture of fact and fiction he creates an excellent storyline that grips the reader. An interesting point is that at the back of the book is a Writers Note section where he separates fact and fiction. The amount that is factually correct is by far the majority of the tale.
An excellent read.
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