The Machiavelli Covenant

Allan Folsom

Dec 2006 · Macmillan + ORM

About this ebook

Allan Folsom returns with a high octane thriller in The Machiavelli Covenant.

In Europe for a crucial NATO summit in Warsaw, US President John Henry Harris is ordered by a secret cabal within his own administration to have the president of France and the chancellor of Germany assassinated. Refusal, he knows, will mean his death. Afraid to trust anyone, the president flees for his life. Pursued by the Secret Service, the CIA, and Spanish Intelligence who believe he is the victim of foul play, Harris joins forces with rogue detective Nicholas Marten and the beautiful but enigmatic French photo-journalist, Demi Picard. Together the three uncover one of the most secretive and brutally powerful groups the world has ever known, a brotherhood of blood that will stop at nothing.

For five hundred years this despotic order of the supremely rich and powerful has kept a secret manuscript by Niccolai Machiavelli—The Covenant, a terrifying blueprint for gaining and keeping political power—hidden under heavy guard, and worshiped like some divine doctrine. Bonded by complicity in ritual murder and dedicated to a singular vision of global domination, over the centuries they have prospered far beyond any dreams of power and avarice. Outmanned, outnumbered, and outgunned, three people now stand alone against it: Nicholas Marten, Demi Picard, and John Henry Harris, president of the United States.

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Ratings and reviews

It is a good story, I was really into it and have read other Allan Folsom books, especially the day of the confession which hooked me and I couldn't leave it until I finished it. Sadly the story of the Machiavelli Covenant involves the president of the US and he speaks Spanish but the problem is that Allan Folsom does not speak Spanish and I do since it is my mother language and I was impressed to see that the author used a cheap Internet translator English-Spanish and not hire the services of professional translators and hence producing a cheap and full of errors and incongruences book. For example, in a part of the book a plane pilot wanted to say something like "fly low, fly low" and Folsom sadly used an Internet translator (which a serious person would avoided to use from High School) and wrote "mosca bajo, mosca bajo" without thinking that 'fly' has two meanings, fly of a plane and fly (the flying animal) so in Spanish 'mosca' is a fly... Examples like this are all over the book, I offer my services to Mr. Folsom if he wants to produce other book with Spanish references in the future. RPP

About the author

ALLAN FOLSOM is the New York Times bestselling author of The Exile, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Day of Confession. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.