The Jefferson Key by Steve Berry

It became clear to me once I started listening to The Jefferson Key that it was part of a series. Unfortunately, the problem with starting at the end of a series rather than the beginning is a good chunk of character development is usually done in prior novels and it definitely proved true for the main characters in this novel. In fact,while listening to the author credits, I discovered it was the seventh novel of the Cotton Malone series.

In spite of that, I thoroughly enjoyed the novel. It had shades of National Treasure type mystery in addition to espionage. And Berry did an excellent job of incorporating his ficition into America’s real history about pirates and presidential assinations. It was easy for me to imagine this as a movie. If my to be read list wasn’t so long, I’d definitely go back and start at the beginning of this series.