The Lost Order **continues renowned New York Times bestseller
Steve Berry's Cotton Malone series with another riveting, history-based
thriller.
The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous
clandestine organization in American history. It amassed billions in
stolen gold and silver, all buried in hidden caches across the United
States. Since 1865 treasure hunters have searched, but little of that
immense wealth has ever been found.*
Now, one hundred and sixty years later, two factions of what remains of
the Knights of the Golden Circle want that lost treasure--one to spend
it for their own ends, the other to preserve it.
Thrust into this battle is former Justice Department agent Cotton
Malone, whose connection to the knights is far deeper than he ever
imagined. At the center is the Smithsonian Institution--linked to the
knights, its treasure, and Malone himself through an ancestor, a
Confederate spy named Angus "Cotton" Adams, whose story holds the key to
everything. Complicating matters are the political ambitions of a
reckless Speaker of the House and the bitter widow of a United States
Senator, who together are planning radical changes to the country. And
while Malone and Cassiopeia Vitt face the past, ex-president Danny
Daniels and Stephanie Nelle confront a new and unexpected challenge, a
threat that may cost one of them their life.
From the backrooms of the Smithsonian to the deepest woods in rural
Arkansas, and finally up into the rugged mountains of northern New
Mexico, The Lost Order by Steve Berry is a perilous adventure into our
country's dark past, and a potentially even darker future.
