A family's secret, a ruthless fanatic, and a covert arm of the
American government--all are linked by a single puzzling possibility:
What if everything we know about the discovery of America was a lie?
What if that lie was designed to hide the secret of why Columbus sailed
in 1492? And what if that 500-year-old secret could violently reshape
the modern political world?
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Tom Sagan has written
hard-hitting articles from hot spots around the world. But when one of
his stories from the Middle East is exposed as a fraud, his professional
reputation crashes and burns. Now he lives in virtual exile--haunted by
bad decisions and a 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 a trigger, fate intervenes in
the form of an enigmatic stranger. This stranger forces Sagan to
act--and his actions attract the attention of the Magellan Billet, a
top-secret corps of the United States Justice Department that deals with
America's most sensitive investigations. Sagan suddenly finds himself
caught in an international incident, the repercussions of which will
shudder not only Washington, D.C., but also Jerusalem. Coaxed into a
deadly cat-and-mouse game, unsure who's friend and who's foe, Sagan is
forced to Vienna, Prague, then finally into the Blue Mountains of
Jamaica--where his survival hinges on his rewriting everything we know
about Christopher Columbus.
Don't miss Steve Berry's short story "The Admiral's Mark" in the back
of the book.
