The King's Deception

In classical Steve Berry style, there are more twists and turns in this plot than in a 1970s disco bar. With its great plot and interesting characters, this book is a real page turner and an enjoyable read. Highly recommended. History Novel Society A textbook lesson in everything a great thriller should be. As smart as it is chilling, as bold as it is brash, Berry's latest is literary entertainment of the highest order. Author Magazine Betrayals abound, and it's never clear what's really going on or the true motives behind the players manipulating Malone at every turn. The Big Story The tension, the suspense and the adrenaline rush are all at their most fevered pitch. Huffington Post Berry's cinematic action ricochets through castles, manor grounds and London's undergrounds while involving a professor assassinated but not dead, scholarly twin sisters and Sir Thomas Mathews, the British SIS's Machiavellian chief. Malone, the teenage boys and Richards survive more entrapments and gun battles than humanly possible. A Dan Brown-ian secular conspiracy about The Virgin Queen driving nonstop international intrigue. Kirkus My kind of thriller ... Steve Berry writes with the self-assured style of a veteran Dan Brown Berry raises this genre's stakes New York Times As always with Steve Berry, you're educated about significant things while your knuckles are turning white and the pages are flying by David Baldacci I love this guy Lee Child