The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It amassed billions in stolen gold and silver, all buried in hidden caches across the United States. Since 1865 treasure hunters have searched, but little of that immense wealth has ever been found.
Now, one hundred and sixty years later, two factions of what remains of the Knights of the Golden Circle want that lost treasure―one to spend it for their own ends, the other to preserve it.
Thrust into this battle is former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone, whose connection to the knights is far deeper than he ever imagined. At the center is the Smithsonian Institution―linked to the knights, its treasure, and Malone himself through an ancestor, a Confederate spy named Angus “Cotton” Adams, whose story holds the key to everything. Complicating matters are the political ambitions of a reckless Speaker of the House and the bitter widow of a United States Senator, who together are planning radical changes to the country. And while Malone and Cassiopeia Vitt face the past, ex-president Danny Daniels and Stephanie Nelle confront a new and unexpected challenge, a threat that may cost one of them their life.
From the backrooms of the Smithsonian to the deepest woods in rural Arkansas, and finally up into the rugged mountains of northern New Mexico, The Lost Order by Steve Berry is a perilous adventure into our country’s dark past, and a potentially even darker future.
Series narrator Scott Brick returns.
“[Scott] Brick sets a page-turning pace by intensifying the drama and the danger and underlining the nail-biting suspense in this thriller filled with conspiracies and intriguing historical information. Listeners should prepare to sit back and enjoy Brick’s riveting and immensely entertaining
performance.”–Booklist on The 14th Colony
A Little too long and a bit confused – but, enjoyable This book is in reality two novels in one – the first is a treasure story – chasing the lost gold of the Confederate States of American supposedly gathered at the end of the war by the Knights of the Golden Circle. The second is a political novel set in current times where the Speaker of the House is planning a coup d’etat via changes in the rules of the House of Representatives. Both of these plot lines are woven together in this book – which tends to make it a bit long.
Hokey but enjoyable… I have been a long-time fan of Steve Berry, but didn’t even bother to read his last two novels as I thought they were getting silly and unbelievable. When The Lost Order was offered through Amazon Vine, I thought I’d give Berry another try. Much of the allure was that the plot was about missing Confederate gold. Unfortunately, I think that Berry had two plots that he tried to weave together with not always successful results. The novel itself is a little too long and the plot a…
True to form, Berry does it again True to form with his Cotton Malone novels, Steve Berry has returned with the story of a VP of the US having fallen to his death and the investigation in to it being lead covertly by the former President of the US. What is found is a convoluted but intriguing story that includes a “Lost Order,” called the Knights of the Golden Circle, the Smithsonian Institution and loopholes in the Constitution that may enable the Speaker of the House to become more powerful than the President…