Description:Cotton Malone series book 3
After narrowly escaping incineration in a devastating fire that
consumes a Danish museum, Cotton Malone—former Justice Department agent
turned rare-book dealer—learns from his friend, the beguiling adventurer
Cassiopeia Vitt, that the blaze was neither an accident nor an isolated
incident.
As part of a campaign of arson intended to mask a far more
diabolical design, buildings across Europe are being devoured by
infernos of unnatural strength. Born from the ashes is a new Eastern
European nation whose ruthless leader will soon draw Cotton into an
intense geopolitical chess game against a shadowy cabal of power
brokers. The prize lies buried with the mummified remains of Alexander
the Great—in a tomb lost to the ages for more than two thousand years.
Trekking from Denmark to Venice to Central Asia, Cotton and Cassiopeia are determined to solve an ancient puzzle whose solution could destroy or save millions of people—depending on who finds the lost tomb first.