title: The Columbus Affair: A Novel (Random House Large Print)
author:  Steve Berry 
description: An engrossing stand-alone thriller from bestseller Berry.<i>Publishers Weekly<br /></i><br />This being a Berry production, every alliance is of course fragile, and the bonds among even the heartiest teammates are up for grabs. So is the ultimate goal, for the author gradually reveals that Columbus lost gold mine is only chicken feed compared to the real bonanza at stake. Less<i>The Da Vinci Code</i>than<i>American Treasure</i>. Think of Nicolas Cage, tearing up the scenery as Tom Sagan, to the background beat of popping corn and youre halfway there.<i>Kirkus Reviews</i> <br /> <br /><b>Praise for Steve Berry</b><br /><br />Berry raises this genres stakes.<i>The New York Times</i><br /><br />As always with Steve Berry, youre educated about significant things while your knuckles are turning white and the pages are flying by.#1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author David Baldacci<br /><br />For those in need of a comparison, think Jack Bauer and the hit television series <i>24,</i> with twists, turns, schemes and counter-schemes manifesting themselves by the second. . . . Berrys on a roll.<i>Los Angeles Times</i><br /><br />I love this guy.#1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Lee Child<br /><br />Forget Clancy and Cussler. When it comes to this genre, there is simply no one better.<i>The Providence Journal</i><br /><br />Steve Berry writes with the self-assured style of a veteran.#1 <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author Dan Brown<br /><br /><br /><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
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  _The Emperor’s Tomb_ is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and
  incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
  Any resemblance to actual events, locales, persons, living or dead, is
  entirely coincidental.
  
  
  Copyright © 2010 by Steve Berry
  
  
  “The Balkan Escape” copyright © 2010 by Steve Berry
  
  
  Excerpt from The Columbus Affair copyright © 2012 by Steve Berry
  
  
  Map copyright © 2010 by David Lindroth, Inc.
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random
  House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
  
  
  BALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
  
  
  LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
  
  
  This book contains an excerpt from The Columbus Affair by Steve Berry. This
  excerpt has been set for this edition only and may not reflect the final
  content of the forthcoming book.
  
  
  Berry, Steve.  
  The emperor