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008			150105s2015 xxk g| 000 1 eng||
020			_a9781444795448
020			_a9781473610675 (hbk.)
020			_a1473610672 (hbk.)
035			_a(AU-SpPPL)TO2748050
035			_a(Nz-Kotui)3255620
035			_a(OCoLC)903192176
035			_a(Nz)15816223
040			_aKotui _cWMTP
100	1		_aBerry, Steve, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Patriot Threat / _cSteve Berry.
300			_a400 pages ; _c23 cm.
490			_aCotton Malone series ; _v10
520			_aThe 16th Amendment to the Constitution legalized federal income tax, but what if there were problems with the 1913 ratification of that amendment? Problems that call into question decades of tax collecting, and could even bring down the US economy. There is a surprising truth to this possibility - a truth wholly entertained by Steve Berry, a top-ten New York Times bestselling writer, in his new thriller, The Patriot Threat. His protagonist, Cotton Malone, once a member of an elite intelligence division within the Justice Department known as the Magellan Billet, is now retired. But when his former-boss, Stephanie Nelle, asks him to track a rogue North Korean who may have acquired some top secret Treasury Department files-the kind that could bring the United States to its knees-Malone is vaulted into a harrowing twenty-four-hour chase that begins on the water in Venice and ends in the remote highlands of Croatia. With appearances by Franklin Roosevelt, Andrew Mellon, and a curious painting that still hangs in the National Gallery of Art, Steve Berry's trademark mix of history and suspense is 90% fact and 10% exciting speculation.
650			_96286 _aIntelligence service _vFiction.
650			_aTaxation _vFiction.
655		0	_aSuspense fiction. _996
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