Book Discussion : The Patriot Threat by Steve Berry

This is the group for the book discussion by the Mystery and Suspense Group of The Patriot Threat by Steve Berry which is Book 10 in the Cotton Malone Series.

All are welcome to join in the discussion, but please ensure that you do not leave any spoilers if you finish the book before Sunday 18th November when others will be reading the final section.

Schedule
Wednesday 14th November : Prologue and 1 - 13
Thursday 15th November : 14 - 27
Friday 16th November : 28 - 41
Saturday 17th November : 42 - 55
Sunday 18th November : 56 - 68

Synopsis (From www.steveberry.org)
The 16th Amendment to the Constitution is why Americans pay income taxes. But what if there were problems associated with that amendment? Secrets that call into question decades of tax collecting? In fact, there is a surprising truth to this hidden possibility.


Cotton Malone, once a member of an elite intelligence division within the Justice Department known as the Magellan Billet, is now retired and owns an old bookshop in Denmark. But when his former-boss, Stephanie Nelle, asks him to track a rogue North Korean who may have acquired some top secret Treasury Department files—the kind that could bring the United States to its knees—Malone is vaulted into a harrowing twenty-four hour chase that begins on the canals in Venice and ends in the remote highlands of Croatia.

With appearances by Franklin Roosevelt, Andrew Mellon, a curious painting that still hangs in the National Gallery of Art, and some eye-opening revelations from the $1 bill, this riveting, non-stop adventure is trademark Steve Berry—90% historical fact, 10% exciting speculation—a provocative thriller posing a dangerous question.

What if the Federal income tax is illegal?