The Charlemagne Pursuit (52 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

S
TEVE
B
ERRY
is the
New York Times
bestselling author of
The Venetian Betrayal, The Alexandria Link, The Templar Legacy, The Third Secret, The Romanov Prophecy,
and
The Amber Room.
His books have been translated into forty-two languages and sold in forty-three countries. A lawyer who has traveled extensively, he lives on the Georgia coast. He is currently at work on his next novel.

www.steveberry.org

ALSO BY STEVE BERRY

The Amber Room

The Romanov Prophecy The Third Secret

The Templar Legacy

The Alexandria Link

The Venetian Betrayal

The Charlemagne Pursuit
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, Any resemblance to actual is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2008 by Steve Berry
Endpaper map copyright © 2008 by David Lindroth

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, for permission to reprint art
Art 1
,
Art 2
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Art 3
, and
Art 4
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Berry, Steve.
The Charlemagne pursuit : a novel / Steve Berry.
p.    cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-50963-5
1. Malone, Cotton (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Booksellers and bookselling—Fiction. 3. Antiquarian booksellers—Fiction. 4. Fathers—Death—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3602.E764C47 2008
813’.6—DC22     2008028357

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