The jefferson key (with bonus short story the devil's gold): a Novel

✍ Scribed by Steve Berry

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: en-jm
• Weight: 350 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0345530160

✦ Synopsis

Four
United States presidents have been assassinatedin 1865, 1881, 1901,
and 1963each murder seemingly unrelated and separated by time.

But
what if those presidents were all killed for the same reason: a clause
in the United States Constitutioncontained within Article 1, Section
8that would shock Americans?

This question is what faces
former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone in his latest
adventure. When a bold assassination attempt is made against President
Danny Daniels in the heart of Manhattan, Malone risks his life to foil
the killingonly to find himself at dangerous odds with the
Commonwealth, a secret society of pirates first assembled during the
American Revolution. In their most perilous exploit yet, Malone and
Cassiopeia Vitt race across the nation and take to the high seas. Along
the way they break a secret cipher originally possessed by Thomas
Jefferson, unravel a mystery concocted by Andrew Jackson, and unearth a
centuries-old document forged by the Founding Fathers themselves, one
powerful enoughthanks to that clause in the Constitutionto make the
Commonwealth unstoppable.