The Lost Order (Cotton Malone #12) - Steve Berry
Category: Thriller
Narrator: Unknown
Tags: Thriller
The Lost Order continues renowned New York Times top 5 bestseller Steve Berrys Cotton Malone series with another riveting, history-based thriller. The Knights of the Golden Circle, founded on July 4, 1854, was the largest, most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It formulated grand plansto expand the United States, change the constitutional landscape, and forge a Southern empire, enslaving a golden circle spanning two continents. To finance its goals, the Order amassed an amazing trove of stolen gold and silver, which they buried in hidden caches across the United States. Treasure hunters have searched for decades, but have never found any of the Orders major hoards. Now, 160 years later, the knights still exist. Two factions within the Order want the treasureone to spend it, the other to preserve it. Thrust into that civil war is former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone., Starting with a hunt for clues inside the Smithsonian Institution, Malone discovers that
