After reading Steve Berry's latest thriller, The Warsaw Protocol (#907), I've added several new places to my Travel Wishlist - Bruges, Belgium, Krakow, Poland and especially the nearby Wieliczka Salt Mine. They all play an important role in the latest world crisis averted by retired (He wishes!) Magellan Billet agent Cotton Malone.
The subject of the attack here is Polish politics, about which I knew practically nothing, but Berry is able to compress an awful lot of useful and relevant information into the plot line without dragging down the action. There are plenty of spies, secret documents and World Heritage sites ready for Cotton Malone to wreak havoc on. (Without doing any lasting damage, of course!)
What do stolen Catholic relics have to do with an ultra secret and exclusive auction? You'll just have to read The Warsaw Protocol to find out. The most trouble you'll have with this novel is figuring out how to pronounce most of the Polish names - but there again, Steve Berry helps the reader over the relevant names.
And just when you think Cotton Malone is really going to retire this time, a teaser is dropped on the last page. He'll be back. Count on it.
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