Live Chat with Author Steve Berry

Now's your chance to talk to thriller author Steve Berry and ask him your burning questions. Tune in on Wednesday June 11th at 1 p.m. EST, to ask Steve questions about THE LINCOLN MYTH (now a New York Times bestseller) and his career.

To join the chat, go here - http://booktrib.com/2014/06/upcoming-live-chat-steve-berry-and-his-latest-thriller-the-lincoln-myth/   

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• EXCERPT from The Lincoln Myth by Steve Berry
• The Lincoln Myth by Steve Berry

EXCERPT from The Lincoln Myth by Steve Berry

Are you a history fan? Fond of conspiracy theories? I have an excerpt for you! Steve Berry enjoys taking historical events and working them into a contemporary mystery or political intrigue. This time, he tackles the beloved American president, Abraham Lincoln. Get your drink and enjoy this excerpt.

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Excerpt from

THE LINCOLN MYTH

by Steve Berry

“I have not left anyone in doubt. My task is to save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be the Union as it was. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all slaves, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union. What I forbear, I forbear because I don’t believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.”

“Then you are not my president, sir. Nor would you be the president of those who voted for you.”

“But I am president. So take this message back to the general. He was sent west to move the army to Memphis and keep advancing eastward. Those are still his orders. He shall either obey them or be removed from his post.”

“I must warn you, sir, that it could be hard if you continue to oppose the general. He could set up for himself.”

Review of The King's Deception by Steve Berry

Publisher: Ballantine Books
Series: Cotton Malone #8
Format Read: Hardcover
Source: Meryl L Moss Media in exchange for an honest review
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Buying Links: Amazon | The Book Depository | Barnes & Noble

Blurb from goodreads:

Cotton Malone is back! Steve Berry’s new international adventure blends gripping contemporary political intrigue, Tudor treachery, and high-octane thrills into one riveting novel of suspense.

Cotton Malone and his fifteen-year-old son, Gary, are headed to Europe. As a favor to his former boss at the Justice Department, Malone agrees to escort a teenage fugitive back to England. But after he is greeted at gunpoint in London, both the fugitive and Gary disappear, and Malone learns that he’s stumbled into a high-stakes diplomatic showdown—an international incident fueled by geopolitical gamesmanship and shocking Tudor secrets.

At its heart is the Libyan terrorist convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103, who is set to be released by Scottish authorities for “humanitarian reasons.” An outraged American government objects, but nothing can persuade the British to intervene.
 
Except, perhaps, Operation King’s Deception.
 
Run by the CIA, the operation aims to solve a centuries-old mystery, one that could rock Great Britain to its royal foundations.
 
Blake Antrim, the CIA operative in charge of King’s Deception, is hunting for the spark that could rekindle a most dangerous fire, the one thing that every Irish national has sought for generations: a legal reason why the English must leave Northern Ireland. The answer is a long-buried secret that calls into question the legitimacy of the entire forty-five-year reign of Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch, who completed the conquest of Ireland and seized much of its land. But Antrim also has a more personal agenda, a twisted game of revenge in which Gary is a pawn. With assassins, traitors, spies, and dangerous disciples of a secret society closing in, Malone is caught in a lethal bind. To save Gary he must play one treacherous player against another—and only by uncovering the incredible truth can he hope to prevent the shattering consequences of the King’s Deception.

Live Chat with Steve Berry on Monday July 1st!

Steve Berry, author of thrillers such as "The Amber Room" and "The Jefferson Key", will be chatting about his newest book, "The King's Deception" about Queen Elizabeth I, where he proposes that she was really a he.

BookTrib is hosting a the chat with Steve on July 1 at 3 p.m. ET. I probably won't be there as I;m scheduled to work but it should be an interesting chat. In the meantime, click here to see what some other readers think. To get more info or join the chat click on the image below.

Steve Berry BookTrib Chat

Thriller/action adventure author Steve Berry released a new book, "The Columbus Affair" recently (which landed at #4 on The New York Times best seller list) and to celebrate, he's doing a live chat over on BookTrib. The chat will be next week, on Wednesday June 13th at 1:30PM EST.

BookTrib would love to have you join him for this incredible opportunity and exciting discussion! Get his professional insight on the writing process, his experience with bestsellers, and his dedication to historic preservation projects (The Columbus Affair is an historic thriller).

10 members of the audience will be randomly selected to win a copy of THE COLUMBUS AFFAIR. So, if you can, go to BookTrib that day and join in the chat. An RSVP is requested, just email livechat@booktrib.com

Book Blurb (from the press release):

“For 500 years historians have pondered the question: Who was Christopher Columbus? The answer is simply another question: Who do you want him to be?” – Anonymous Observer

He was called many names – Columb, Colom, Colon – but we know him as Christopher Columbus. Many questions about him exist: Where was he born, raised and educated? Where did he die? How did he discover the New World? None have ever been properly answered. And then there is the greatest secret of all.

From New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry comes THE COLUMBUS AFFAIR (Ballantine Books Hardcover – On sale May 15, 2012 for $27US) an exciting new adventure – one that challenges everything we thought we knew about the discovery of America.

Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Tom Sagan has written hard-hitting articles from hot spots around the world. But when a controversial report from a war-torn region is exposed as a fraud, his professional reputation is destroyed. Now he lives in virtual exile, haunted by bad decisions and the shocking truth he can never prove: that his downfall was a deliberate act of sabotage by an unknown enemy. But before Sagan can end his torment with the squeeze of the trigger, fate intervenes in the form of an enigmatic stranger with a request that cannot be ignored.

Zachariah Simon has the look of a scholar, the soul of a scoundrel and the zeal of a fanatic. He also has Tom Sagan’s estranged daughter at his mercy. Simon desperately wants something only Sagan can supply: the key to a 500-year-old mystery, a treasure with explosive political significance in the modern world. For both Simon and Sagan the stakes are high, the goal intensely personal, the consequences of opposing either man potentially catastrophic. On a perilous quest from Florida to Vienna to Prague and finally to the mountains of Jamaica, the two men square off in a dangerous game. Along the way, both of their lives will be altered – and everything we know about Christopher Columbus will change.

STEVE BERRY is the New York Times bestselling author of The Jefferson Key, The Emperor’s Tomb, The Paris Vendetta, The Charlemagne Pursuit, The Venetian Betrayal, The Alexandria Link, The Templar Legacy, The Third Secret, The Romanov Prophecy, The Amber Room, and the short stories “The Admiral’s Mark,” “The Devil’s Gold,” and “The Balkan Escape.” He has 14 million books in print, which have been translated into 40 languages and sold in 51 countries. He lives in St. Augustine, Florida. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have founded History Matters, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving our heritage.


I won't be able to attend as I'll be working but I'm on the wait list for this book at my library. I'm looking forward to it!