The Charlemagne Pursuit: Book 4

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I have been reading this series from the first book and enjoyed them all so far.

The Charlemagne Pursuit is the least successful of Steve Berry's Cotton Malone thrillers. The plots in the book are quite separate and I found them difficult to believe in. In one plot a Bavarian family is looking for an US submarine (commanded by Malone's father) with their own father on board which went missing during an Antarctic expedition in the early seventies. The other plot involves a US admiral who is trying to achieve an important position through various nefarious deeds and who also went on the Antarctic expedition and brought back evidence of an early civilization. The two plots occasionally overlap but neither is really believable and the ending made little sense to me. It is very well written (as are all Berry's books) but he favours fragmentation of action where two or three situations are being discussed together and he switches from one to another at exciting moments. I personally think this is carried to extremes and you lose track of the plots as well as having to keep going back to see what was happening.An interesting thriller but not nearly as satisfying as The Venetian Betrayal.

for my father he loves it

good read