the Devils Gold Short Story

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Year: 2011
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling author of The Jefferson Key brings you a short story that takes readers on a perilous hunt for . . . *The Devil's Gold*

Once he was called the Sphinx, a man so inscrutable that neither his adversaries nor fellow intelligence operatives could predict his next move. Now a contract agent with a secret mission, Jonathan Wyatt has gone rogue. For eight years hes been plotting. Waiting. Scheming to kill Federal agents Christopher Combs and Cotton Malone, whom he blames for the loss of his career. But as Wyatt prepares for a final confrontation in a remote South American village, he makes a discovery that stretches back to the horrors of World War II, to theastounding secret of a childs birth, to Martin Bormann and Eva Braunand to a fortune in lost gold.

BONUS: Includes excerpts from Steve Berry's The Jefferson Key and The Columbus Affair.