The Columbus Affair: A Novel (with bonus quick story The Admiral’s Mark)

A household’s secret, a ruthless fanatic, and a covert arm of the American authorities—all are linked by a single puzzling risk:
 
What if every part we all know concerning the discovery of America was a lie? What if that lie was designed to cover the key of why Columbus sailed in 1492? And what if that 500-year-old secret might violently reshape the trendy political world?
 
Pulitzer Prize–successful investigative journalist Tom Sagan has written hard-hitting articles from scorching spots around the globe. However when one in every of his tales from the Center East is uncovered as a fraud, his skilled repute crashes and burns. Now he lives in digital exile—haunted by dangerous choices and a stunning fact he can by no means show:  that his downfall was a deliberate act of sabotage by an unknown enemy. However earlier than Sagan can finish his torment with the squeeze of a set off, destiny intervenes within the type of an enigmatic stranger.  This stranger forces Sagan to behave—and his actions appeal to the eye of the Magellan Billet, a top-secret corps of the United States Justice Division that offers with America’s most delicate investigations. Sagan all of a sudden finds himself caught in an worldwide incident, the repercussions of which is able to shudder not solely Washington, D.C., but additionally Jerusalem. Coaxed right into a lethal cat-and-mouse sport, not sure who’s pal and who’s foe, Sagan is compelled to Vienna, Prague, then lastly into the Blue Mountains of Jamaica—the place his survival hinges on his rewriting every part we find out about Christopher Columbus.
 
Don’t miss Steve Berry’s quick story “The Admiral’s Mark” and a sneak peek of his new novel, The King’s Deception, behind the ebook.