The Medici Return - Steve Berry

The Medici Return

By Steve Berry

  • Release Date: 2025-02-11
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4
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From 308 Ratings
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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—now in development as a streaming series. The Medici Return takes Cotton to Italy to solve a five hundred year-old mystery.  

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

  • 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.

  • Fun

    5
    By Rhinosandy III
    A fun read.

  • Love the Steve Berry novels

    4
    By RZelnio
    I love history and the Berry novels are always rife with it - as well as well written and entertaining. This one is no exception. It does bog down a bit with details from time to time. But even these present interesting historical notes for those of us not lucky enough to see the Palio or visit Florence.

  • Malone plays a supporting role? Really

    1
    By CareerMoves
    In the first 80% of the book, Malone is involved in only three action incidents - unless you count a horse race as an action incident. Extremely long on narrative of the Medicis and their relationship with the Vatican and the last Medici searching to validate his heritage. Does Berry write about anything other than a plot involving a bad Cardinal (this one hires an assassin)? Turns out even a “good” Cardinal hired the same assassin to wreak eye-for-eye retribution in the name of the Catholic Church. Then the Church suppresses a document that proves it owes millions to the Medicis even though one Medici still survives - with a trite explanation that she’s 100- years old and is dying. So, the bad Church welches on its debts.

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