The Columbus Affair
By Steve Berry
Ballantine Books
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For hundreds of years, we have heard the stories of famed Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus and how he “discovered” America. What if everything we have been told is wrong?
Steve Berry is best known for writing the Cotton Malone series of thriller novels, including The Emperor’s Tomb and The Jefferson Key. Cotton gets a vacation in Berry’s latest novel, The Columbus Affair. In his first standalone novel in seven years, Berry tackles the enigma that was Christopher Columbus. Many of the details of the explorer’s life remain shrouded in mystery. Berry combines legends, facts and creative fiction to spin a tale that questions all that we know about the Spaniard and the discovery of America.
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