The Medici Return

Steve Berry, Scott Brick

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Hodder & Stoughton
13 May 2025

Historical mysteries; Espionage & spy thriller

Don't miss the next utterly gripping novel in the Cotton Malone series from New York Times Bestselling author Steve Berry, available to pre-order now!

Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, has been asked to assist the Swiss guard with determining whether Cardinal Jason Richter has engaged in bribery and theft. It's a favor for Stephanie Nelle, once his boss at the Magellan Billet, who is doing a favor for the Vatican. But nothing is as it seems. Three hundred thousand euros are found, a Swiss Guardsman is murdered, and a killer sets his sights on both Cotton and the cardinal.

Together they are thrust into a search for a forgotten document, a 16th century Pledge of Christ executed by Pope Julius II that reveals a debt owed by the Vatican, still valid after five centuries, now worth in the trillions of dollars. But when the trail to collecting that debt leads Cotton to the famed Medici of Florence-a family that history says died out, without heirs, centuries ago-he realizes that two more things also hang in the balance. Who will be the next prime minister of Italy, and who will become the next pope.

From a quiet hilltop village in central Germany, to the ancient city of Siena with its famed Palio horse race, and finally to the historic piazzas, churches, and crypts of Florence, Cotton Malone uncovers the answers, one by one, everything hinging on when, and if, the Medici return.

By: Steve Berry
Read by: Scott Brick
Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 627g
ISBN: 9781399738866
ISBN 10: 1399738860
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 13 May 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Steve Berry is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of nineteen Cotton Malone novels, five standalone thrillers, two Luke Daniels adventures, and several works of short fiction. He has more than twenty- six million books in print, translated into forty- one languages. With his wife, Elizabeth, he is the founder of History Matters, an organization dedicated to historical preservation. He serves as an emeritus member of the Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board and was a founding member of International Thriller Writers, formerly serving as its copresident. For more information you can visit: SteveBerry.org Facebook.com/SteveBerryWriter

Reviews for The Medici Return

PRAISE FOR STEVE BERRY A fast-paced, well-written, entertaining adventure * Booklist * [Berry's] most ambitious and relevant thriller to date. A no-holds-barred, high-stakes romp with echoes of class spy novelists like John le Carré, Len Deighton, and Alistair MacLean . . . This is a dream read for the unabashed thriller aficionado, a story stitched along classic lines that never disappoints in laying out a riveting and relentless tapestry * Providence Journal * Berry skillfully lays out yet another tantalizing historical what-if * Publishers Weekly * Berry keeps finding enticing alternate-history mysteries for Malone to solve . . . Keep 'em coming * Booklist * Ominously up-to-date * Kirkus Reviews *