Natural cotton Malone retired from your high-risk globe of top notch operatives for the U.S. Justice Division to lead the low-key life of a rare-book seller. But his noiseless existence is certainly shattered when he receives an private e-mail: “You have something I’d like. You’ re the just person on earth who knows how to locate it. Go get it. You possess 72 hours. If I don’t hear from you, you will be childless.” His horrified ex-wife confirms the fact that threat is true: Their teenage boy has been kidnapped. When about The Alexandria Hyperlink: A Novel Malone’s Copenhagen bookshop can be burned to the ground, it becomes brutally clear that those responsible will minimize at nothing at all to obtain what they need. And what they want is nothing less than the lost Library of Alexandria.

A cradle of ideas-historical, philosophical, literary, medical, and religious-the Library of Alexandria was unrivaled in the globe. But fifteen hundred years ago, it vanished in to the mists of myth and legend-its huge bounty of intelligence coveted since by scholars, fortune hunters, and those who believe its untold secrets hold the key to greatest power.

Today a cartel of rich worldwide moguls, bent on changing the course of history, is eager to breach the library’s hallowed halls-and just Malone possesses the info they need to achieve success. At stake can be an explosive ancient document using the potential not only to change the destiny of the Middle East but to shake the world’s three main religions to their very foundations.

Pursued by a lethal mercenary, Malone crosses the world in search of answers. His pursuit will lead him to England and Portugal, also towards the highest levels of American government-and the shattering final result, deep in the Sinai desert, will have worldwide repercussions.

BONUS: This release contains an excerpt from Steve Berry’s The Columbus Affair and a Natural cotton Malone dossier.