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Berry has a knack for writing decent action and dialogue, so his books remain interesting reads on a page-by-page basis, but he has absolutely no concept of creating a decent plot. As happens with nearly every book he has written, I get to the end when the big reveal finally happens and I am left thinking "That's it? THAT'S the big secret that people are willing kill for?"

It's the same in every book. The story flows well, but the underlying mystery is so thin, contrived, and well, anti-climactic, that the whole book leaves me wondering why I keep reading Steve Berry.

Aide from that, this particular book takes far too many liberties with characters who are previously well-defined. They act completely out of character throughout the story. As a stand-alone, it would be okay, but as a continuation of series, it's an almost unforgivable and quite lazy lack of consistency by the author.


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The Lincoln Myth Cotton Malone Steve Berry Books Reviews

Educational without being dull (true of all Steve Berry books I've read to date) engaging and thought provoking. Unsettling historically on several levels, As often the case when I read Berry's books, I'll reading more about our Constitution, other issues. There's history as we're taught in school, more palatable than the reality-based HISTORY for which others more driven and better suited often delve.
Often, unlike Berry and others of his ilk, those talented historical explorer don't often present their findings in a way which holds our attention or makes a strong impression.
That Berry and others can is a mixed blessing. He challenges you to loosen your holds on what you believe to be true and accept that there are other possibilities. ..
Cotton Malone can't be allowed to retire and stay retired. And for that, we should all be glad.

In this book, the ninth in the series, he is pulled once again out of his bookstore in Denmark to help rescue an informant carrying critical intelligence. Ad soon he is drawn into a mystery involving Abraham Lincoln, the American Constitution and the Church of Later-Day Saints. For it was back in 1861, that Lincoln made a choice dealing with a secret passed down from the very beginnings of the country.

Soon it is a battle and a race between the White House and a power United States senator and Mormon. The finish could very well change the entire nation. this time its more a mental challenge — although there is plenty of action — as Cotton has to decide who is with him and who is not, who can he trust and will a special relationship of his be forever broken.
Like other Cotton Malone books, of which I am a fan, there's a lot of thud and blunder and fun and it's a quick read. I'm happy to go through the process of reading these books, and usually enjoy my ride.

Unfortunately for this one I know a little bit of the history Berry is basing his story on, and the fictional part of the history just doesn't hold up.

I'll try not to spoil, but at this point if you really care about believability you should stop reading. Move to the next review.

The fictional history is that the members of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 were worried that without the right to secession the government created by the Constitution would be doomed. So to gain the approval of all the remaining Conventioneers (many had left by the time it was done, and some never arrived) James Madison arranged to have the final signators to the Convention sign a document outlining that states had the right to secede from the Union if the federal government got too draconian or whatever.

This is treated in the book as a document that would actually allow states to secede as part of the Constitution, as if it were an integral part of the Constitution itself.

Which is hogwash.

The men in the Constitutional Convention had no authority to create a federal government whatsoever. The document they produced -- the Constitution of the United States of America -- had no power at all when they signed it. It meant nothing unless the states agreed to it and decided that this was to be the structure of the federal government.

But in Berry's fiction the LEFT OUT THE RIGHT TO SECEDE. Not one state agreed to the right to secede when they agreed to participate in the US Constitution. Not one new state -- 37 of them -- that have joined the Union since the US Constitution was adopted voted on this fictional document regarding secession.

So the entire basis of the conflict in this book is that fewer than 60 men in 1787 agreed to the right to secession but were unwilling to actually write it into the Constitution they proposed and that was adopted by the states would have the power of law in the 21st Century.

Which is ridiculous.

Still, there's lots of chases and fights and guns and thievery and skullduggery so the book is fun.

But as an actual story on what would occur should his fiction have actually happened, it's a joke.
Berry has a knack for writing decent action and dialogue, so his books remain interesting reads on a page-by-page basis, but he has absolutely no concept of creating a decent plot. As happens with nearly every book he has written, I get to the end when the big reveal finally happens and I am left thinking "That's it? THAT'S the big secret that people are willing kill for?"

It's the same in every book. The story flows well, but the underlying mystery is so thin, contrived, and well, anti-climactic, that the whole book leaves me wondering why I keep reading Steve Berry.

Aide from that, this particular book takes far too many liberties with characters who are previously well-defined. They act completely out of character throughout the story. As a stand-alone, it would be okay, but as a continuation of series, it's an almost unforgivable and quite lazy lack of consistency by the author.