The Medici Return, 9781399738903
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Vatican secrets, a lost Medici family, and trillions at stake.
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The Medici Return

a heart-pounding and thrilling read for 2025 from new york times bestselling author

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  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    2 March 2026

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Summary

The Medici Cipher: A Cotton Malone Thriller

Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is drawn into a Vatican mystery when he’s asked to investigate Cardinal Jason Richter for bribery and theft. It’s a favor for Stephanie Nelle, his former boss, but nothing is as it seems.

Three hundred thousand euros are discovered, a Swiss Guardsman is murdered, and a killer targets both Cotton and the cardinal. They are thrust into a hunt for a forgotten 16th-century Pledge of C…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781399738903
ISBN-10:1399738909
Author:Steve Berry
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:2 March 2026
Weight:0g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm
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Critics Review

PRAISE FOR STEVE BERRYA fast-paced, well-written, entertaining adventure * Booklist *[Berry’s] most ambitious and relevant thriller to date. A no-holds-barred, high-stakes romp with echoes of class spy novelists like John le Carré, Len Deighton, and Alistair MacLean … This is a dream read for the unabashed thriller aficionado, a story stitched along classic lines that never disappoints in laying out a riveting and relentless tapestry * Providence Journal *Berry skillfully lays out yet another tantalizing historical what-if * Publishers Weekly *Berry keeps finding enticing alternate-history mysteries for Malone to solve … Keep ‘em coming * Booklist *Ominously up-to-date * Kirkus Reviews *

About The Author

Steve Berry

Steve Berry is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of nineteen Cotton Malone novels, five standalone thrillers, two Luke Daniels adventures, and several works of short fiction. He has more than twenty- six million books in print, translated into forty- one languages. With his wife, Elizabeth, he is the founder of History Matters, an organization dedicated to historical preservation. He serves as an emeritus member of the Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board and was a founding member of International Thriller Writers, formerly serving as its copresident.

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