The Warsaw Protocol, Steve Berry
The Warsaw Protocol, Steve Berry
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The Warsaw Protocol
A Novel

Bestseller

Author: Steve Berry

Narrator: Scott Brick, Steve Berry

Unabridged: 11 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/25/2020


Synopsis

In this audiobook, Steve Berry and Macmillan Audio team up again to bring listeners an expanded, annotated Writer's Cut edition of The Warsaw Protocol. This Writer's Cut edition features fascinating behind-the-scenes commentary read by the author.

Critically-acclaimed and award-winning narrator Scott Brick returns to his role as Cotton Malone — eponymous hero of Berry's iconic New York Times bestselling series — as the seven precious relics of the Arma Christi, the weapons of Christ, disappear one by one from sanctuaries across the world.

After former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone witnesses the theft of one of them, he learns from his old boss, Stephanie Nelle, that a private auction is about to be held where incriminating information on the president of Poland will be offered to the highest bidder—blackmail that both the United States and Russia want, but for vastly different reasons.

The price of admission to that auction is one of the relics, so Malone is first sent to a castle in Poland to steal the Holy Lance, a thousand-year-old spear sacred to not only Christians but to the Polish people, and then on to the auction itself. But nothing goes as planned and Malone is thrust into a bloody battle between three nations over information that, if exposed, could change the balance of power in Europe.

From the tranquil canals of Bruges, to the elegant rooms of Wawel Castle, to deep beneath the earth into an ancient Polish salt mine, Malone is caught in the middle of a deadly war—the outcome of which turns on a secret known as the Warsaw Protocol.

Praise for Scott Brick as Cotton Malone:

"Brick is a masterful narrator, raising the tension in the action scenes while keeping the listener engaged in the slower historical segments." - AudioFile Magazine on The Malta Exchange

"Narrator Scott Brick's smooth voice flows with the twists and turns of Berry's political thriller...Secrets unravel, and tensions rise as Brick shifts vocal focus from the historical secret society to contemporary conspirators who include corrupt politicians and judges." — AudioFile Magazine on The Lost Order

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books

About Steve Berry

American author, Steve Berry, was born in 1955 in Georgia, where he eventually graduated from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University. He served as a trial lawyer for 30 years, while holding elected office for 14 of those years. He was also a founding member of International Thriller Writers, where he served as co-president for three years, with a membership of nearly 4,000. Berry and his wife were very supportive of historic preservation. This interest led them to initiate History Matters, a foundation dedicated to historic preservation across the country. They have traveled far and wide with various projects to raise money for the foundation. They have raised over a million dollars by providing a writer's workshop. At this time over 3,000 students have attended the workshop.

Berry's books have been translated into 40 languages with over 22,000,000 copies in 51 countries. His works include: The Lost Order, The 14th Colony, The Patriot Threat, The Lincoln Myth, The King's Deception, The Columbus Affair, The Jefferson Key, and several others. They are always ranked very high in the New York Times, USA Today, and other bestseller lists.


Reviews

Goodreads review by PamG on October 20, 2019

THE WARSAW PROTOCOL by Steve Berry is the fifteenth book in the Cotton Malone series. While it works well as a standalone, you will get better insight into Cotton’s character if you have read prior books in the series. Cotton Malone is a former Justice Department intelligence agent who now owns a rar......more

Goodreads review by Judy on January 16, 2020

This is a fast-paced international thriller set in Poland and is rich in Polish history (of which I knew almost nothing). The country has certainly been a hotbed of polical intrigue and upheaval, as well as being caught up in two World Wars. Steve Berry certainly had a handle on the material and had......more

Goodreads review by Mihaela on December 19, 2023

4,5 Un volum interesant, în care SUA apare în rolul negativ încercând să impună cu forța o situație politică care chiar a existat în realitate. Un mixt interesant al ficțiunii cu realitatea dură a epocii comuniste din a Polonia. Dintre toate volumele acesta mi-a plăcut cel mai mult.......more

Goodreads review by Carol on January 16, 2025

We have something for almost everyone here. Holy relics, a salt mine, and loads of treachery, all together in this 15th book in the long-running, Cotton Malone series. A former lawyer and American intelligence officer, Cotton Malone is now a bookseller who goes to Bruges, Belgium, for an antiquarian......more

Goodreads review by Cody on August 18, 2020

There's a part to the national anthem of Poland that goes: "Poland has not yet perished, So long as we still live. What the foreign force has take from us, We shall with sabre retrieve." Those verses are a pretty good summation of Steve Berry's 15th book in the Cotton Malone series: The Warsaw Proto......more


Quotes

Advance Praise for The Warsaw Protocol

“Berry once again shows there’s no working author more skilled at combining thrilling adventure with engrossing historical detail.” — Publishers Weekly

"Berry has called Dan Brown and raised him, taking the lead in the big-money game of the religious-relic thriller." —Booklist

Praise for Steve Berry

“The intrigue is intense . . . . Thriller fans will have their violence fix, but the real fun is in learning about the inner workings of the church, its history dating all the way back to Constantine, and the troubled past of Malta . . . . This one will appeal to Dan Brown fans and anyone else in the mood for a page-turning yarn.” —Kirkus Reviews on The Malta Exchange

"[Berry] really is very good at the historical-conspiracy thriller; he’s a skilled writer—much more so than Dan Brown, to whom he's often compared—and a more dexterous plotter than many of his contemporaries. Fans of the Malone series will give this one an enthusiastic thumbs-up.” — Booklist on The Malta Exchange

"The Lost Order, Steve Berry’s latest Cotton Malone adventure, combines the history of a secret society with a look inside the Smithsonian Institution —and it’s terrific. Berry has written another gripping novel.” —Jeff Ayers, Associated Press (USA Today, Washington Post, ABC News) on The Lost Order

“Another terrific blend of history and thrills.” —Library Journal “Best of 2017” on The Lost Order