The Medici Return - Steve Berry

The Medici Return

By Steve Berry

  • Release Date: 2025-02-11
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4.5
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Description

From celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest installment in his wildly popular Cotton Malone series, in which Cotton must solve a five hundred year-old mystery—now in development as a streaming series.

Cotton Malone is on the hunt for a forgotten 16th century Pledge of Christ—a sworn promise made by Pope Julius II that evidences a monetary debt owed by the Vatican, still valid after five centuries—now worth in the trillions of dollars. But collecting that debt centers around what happened to the famed Medici of Florence—a family that history says died out, without heirs, centuries ago. 

Who will become the next prime minister of Italy, and who will be the next pope? Finding answers proves difficult until Cotton realizes that everything hinges on when, and if, the Medici return.

Reviews

  • Love the Learning. So much of Life’s story is obscured.

    5
    By HeidiAH
    I love Cotton and his historical romps. So much hidden we will never know. So many orbits and sliding doors.

  • Great Read

    5
    By Samnite100
    More please…!

  • Not his best

    2
    By Joeprewitt
    Cotton in the horse race is ludicrous. This is just an excuse for the writer to right off his trip to Italy

  • A pleasure

    5
    By efra1946
    As always a magnificent book. Thanks to the author.

  • The Medici Return

    1
    By Big Bad Bookworm
    I have been a long time fan of Steve Berry until the last few books. While filled with interesting history, this book is one dimensional and frankly, boring. An all male cast with one manipulative female character did not endear me at all. Will skip future books.

  • Too detailed

    2
    By stevemurd
    I have read every Cotton Malone book from Steve Berry and this is the first I had to quit reading after almost halfway through. Just too much details with Italian history and families,etc. I had to keep going back,and forth. I stopped reading it at about 45% complete. Disappointing!

  • The Medici return

    1
    By Divadogsg
    Painfully boring.

  • Another great one by Steve Berry

    5
    By wipccdude
    I have read all of Steve Berry’s books. Love how he takes history and builds a story around it. The Medici Return is another great read. Thanks Steve Berry!

  • Not one of his best.

    2
    By YoungMichaelF
    Not one of his best books.

  • Titles please!

    4
    By YBqueen
    I knew quite a bit about the historical background of the papacy, but what I found extremely annoying was almost each chapter would begin with a man’s name Eric, Jason, Thomas, Stefano, and it got very confusing to whom they were referring to. I would suggest that the author say Rev, Father or cardinal when he introduced a character.

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