The Venetian Betrayal [Paperback]

Steve Berry (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: Random House (2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0340933453
• ISBN-13: 978-0340933459
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,143,482 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Steve Berry is the New York Times bestselling author of The Jefferson Key, The Emperor's Tomb, The Paris Vendetta, The Charlemagne Pursuit, The Venetian Betrayal, The Alexandria Link, The Templar Legacy, The Third Secret, The Romanov Prophecy, and The Amber Room --- as well as the e-book original short stories The Balkan Escape and The Devil's Gold. He has 12,000,000 books in print worldwide, translated into 40 languages and sold in 51 countries. He lives in the historic city of St. Augustine, Florida. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have founded History Matters, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving our heritage. To learn more about Steve and the foundation, visit www.steveberry.org.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Berry Good, May 23, 2010

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John Durkee "j" (Hunt, TX, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Venetian Betrayal (Mass Market Paperback)

I like Steve Berry.

Yes, his novels are implausible. No there is not a lot of character development. No one is going to read a Steve Berry novel and compare it to the literature they were forced to read in a college class in American literature.

But, biff, bam, boom, Steve Berry's characters make things happen. The action is continuing. You continually want to read another chapter, rather than fall asleep.

I think Berry's real talent is finding "holes" in authentic history and filling them with stories about what "could have" or "might have" been, or what didn't happen. He does this a with a bit more historical detail than does Clive Cussler (whom I also enjoy) with his Dirk Pitt novels.

And I have already bought another one to read. It seems like Berry can turn these things out about as fast as I can read them. GoodJob!

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting application of Old Greek history., November 30, 2008

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Matthew Castelli (Fredericksburg, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Venetian Betrayal (Mass Market Paperback)

This is my first Steve Berry/Cotton Malone novel and I was not entirely knocked out by it. The story was intriguing, and the angle of reviving Alexander the Great's conquests in the modern world was certainly a fresh perspective in a geopolitical genre. But the end almost seemed a bit anticlimactic and wrapped up a bit too neatly for my tastes. The HIV/AIDS cure aspect was certainly an interesting subplot but truth be told I saw that coming after reading the prologue.

I understand other "Cotton Malone" novels are ranked better and might be persuaded to check out any one of those but I would have a hard time recommending to anyone looking for something with a lot of meat to the story.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Work, January 25, 2009

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eb (Sherman Oaks, Ca. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Venetian Betrayal (Mass Market Paperback)

The narrative gets lost in this 540 page novel. Berry bounces all over the place, pausing now and then to deliver pages of descriptive history, science and local color...which mostly distract from the read. The book is also populated with so many characters I found myself not caring about any of them, heros and villains alike. I tried skimming it but even that was too much work, so I put it down short of 200 pages.