The Columbus Affair: A Novel (with bonus short story The Admiral’s Mark)-Fast Shipping

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Afamily’s secret, a ruthless fanatic, and a covert arm of the Americangovernment—all are linked by a single puzzling possibility:

Whatif everything we know about the discovery of America was a lie? What ifthat lie was designed to hide the secret of why Columbus sailed in1492? And what if that 500-year-old secret could violently reshape themodern political world?

Pulitzer Prize–winninginvestigative journalist Tom Sagan has written hard-hitting articlesfrom hot spots around the world. But when one of his stories from theMiddle East is exposed as a fraud, his professional reputation crashesand burns. Now he lives in virtual exile—haunted by bad decisions and ashocking truth he can never prove: that his downfall was a deliberateact of sabotage by an unknown enemy. But before Sagan can end historment with the squeeze of a trigger, fate intervenes in the form of anenigmatic stranger. This stranger forces Sagan to act—and his actionsattract the attention of the Magellan Billet, a top-secret corps of theUnited States Justice Department that deals with America’s mostsensitive investigations. Sagan suddenly finds himself caught in aninternational incident, the repercussions of which will shudder not onlyWashington, D.C., but also Jerusalem. Coaxed into a deadlycat-and-mouse game, unsure who’s friend and who’s foe, Sagan is forcedto Vienna, Prague, then finally into the Blue Mountains of Jamaica—wherehis survival hinges on his rewriting everything we know aboutChristopher Columbus.

Don’t miss Steve Berry’s short story “The Admiral’s Mark” in the back of the book.