The Humpherys Family

The Jefferson Key

Record Added: 3/4/2019
Author Steve Berry
Series Cotton Malone #7
Setting United States
Topic Mystery
Publisher Random House Publishers I
ISBN B004P8JPIQ   Year 2011
Age Adult   Pages 475
Description Printed dustjacket
 
Four presidents of the United States have been assassinated—in 1865, 1881, 1901, and 1963—each murder seemingly unrelated. But what if those presidents were all killed for the shocking same reason: a clause contained in the United States Constitution? This is the question faced by former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone.

When President Danny Daniels is nearly killed in the heart of Manhattan, Malone risks his life to foil the murder—only to find himself at odds with the Commonwealth, a secret society of pirates first assembled during the American Revolution. Racing across the nation and taking to the high seas, Malone and Cassiopeia Vitt must break a secret cipher originally possessed by Thomas Jefferson, unravel a mystery concocted by Andrew Jackson, and unearth a document forged by the Founding Fathers themselves—one powerful enough to make the Commonwealth unstoppable.
Notes
From used bookstore in St. George, Anniversary Weekend 2019.
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