The Emperor's Treasure (The Paris Revenge) is the fifth book of the saga about Cotton Malone, a creator invented by writer Steve Berry. Tramamodifies wikitesto
It's just a nightmare, but it's becoming an obsession: Cotton Malone continues to live in the dream of the City of Mexico bombing where Cai Thorvaldsen, a young and brilliant Danish diplomat, has been killed. An assassination that he did not succeed in storming and changing his life: after resigning as an operational agent of the US Justice Department, Malone moved to Copenhagen where, thanks to the help of the victim's father, billionaire Henrik Thorvaldsen, opened an antique library. However, Henrik never stopped investigating the death of his beloved son, and now he has finally got the name of the culprit: Lord Graham Ashby, a hub of artwork recently recruited by the Paris Club - a greedy lobby European speculators - to find out where the legendary treasure of Napoleon was hidden. Animated by a burning desire for revenge, Henrik then asks Cotton to rebuild the treasure story, to locate it before Ashby and to oppose the plans of the Paris Club. And the only way to succeed is to trace an enigmatic volume quoted by Napoleon in his will and entrusted to his butler a few days before dying. Soon Malone learns that the United States government is also interested in catching Ashby, so he has to make a choice: honoring the debt of gratitude to his friend or staying true to his country ...
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