The Columbus Affair: A Novel (with bonus short story The Admiral's Mark) - Steve Berry

A
family's secret, a ruthless fanatic, and a covert arm of the American
government-all are linked by a single puzzling possibility:

What
if everything we know about the discovery of America was a lie? What if
that lie was designed to hide the secret of why Columbus sailed in
1492? And what if that 500-year-old secret could violently reshape the
modern political world?

Pulitzer Prize-winning
investigative journalist Tom Sagan has written hard-hitting articles
from hot spots around the world. But when one of his stories from the
Middle East is exposed as a fraud, his professional reputation crashes
and burns. Now he lives in virtual exile-haunted by bad decisions and a
shocking truth he can never prove: that his downfall was a deliberate
act of sabotage by an unknown enemy. But before Sagan can end his
torment with the squeeze of a trigger, fate intervenes in the form of an
enigmatic stranger. This stranger forces Sagan to act-and his actions
attract the attention of the Magellan Billet, a top-secret corps of the
United States Justice Department that deals with America's most
sensitive investigations. Sagan suddenly finds himself caught in an
international incident, the repercussions of which will shudder not only
Washington, D.C., but also Jerusalem. Coaxed into a deadly
cat-and-mouse game, unsure who's friend and who's foe, Sagan is forced
to Vienna, Prague, then finally into the Blue Mountains of Jamaica-where
his survival hinges on his rewriting everything we know about
Christopher Columbus.

Don't miss Steve Berry's short story "The Admiral's Mark" in the back of the book.