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Authors: Steve Berry

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ALSO BY
STEVE BERRY

C
OTTON
M
ALONE
N
OVELS

The Lincoln Myth

The King’s Deception

The Jefferson Key

The Emperor’s Tomb

The Paris Vendetta

The Charlemagne Pursuit

The Venetian Betrayal

The Alexandria Link

The Templar Legacy

S
TAND-ALONE
N
OVELS

The Columbus Affair

The Third Secret

The Romanov Prophecy

The Amber Room

EB
OOK
O
RIGINALS

“The Tudor Plot”

“The Admiral’s Mark”

“The Devil’s Gold”

“The Balkan Escape”

 

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CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Epigraph

Prologue

The Present

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57

Chapter 58

Chapter 59

Chapter 60

Chapter 61

Chapter 62

Chapter 63

Chapter 64

Chapter 65

Chapter 66

Chapter 67

Chapter 68

Writer’s Note

About the Author

Also by Steve Berry

Copyright

 

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

 

THE PATRIOT THREAT. Copyright © 2015 by Steve Berry. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

 

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Cover design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein

 

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

 

Berry, Steve, 1955–

    The patriot threat / Steve Berry.—First edition.

            pages    cm

    ISBN 978-1-250-05623-8 (hardcover)

    ISBN 978-1-4668-6260-9 (e-book)

    ISBN 978-1-250-07136-1 (international edition)

  1.  Political fiction.   I.  Title.

    PS3602.E764P38 2015

    813'.6—dc23

                                                               2014040122

 

e-ISBN 9781466862609

 

First Edition: March 2015

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