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Written on Dec 22, 2008
There’s two different things going on here, even though they are related. First, there is Cotton’s search for the truth about his father’s death, referred to in the book as “The Charlemagne Pursuit”. In addition to this, there is a military/political cover-up that is spearheaded by an admiral who will do whatever he needs to close to the President. I enjoyed both parts of the pursuit, but I think I liked Stephanie and Edwin’s chase of the killer more, especially their adventures on the Biltmore estate (probably because I just visited it last spring). The parts about Charlemagne were interesting to me, because it’s a time of history I’m not real familiar with. For one, I never would have associated Charlemagne with Germany. I’ve heard the theories about there being some sort of “first civilization”, but I never knew the Nazis went to Antarctica (even if that’s not why they went there).
Overall, I liked this, despite some slowness in the middle. The last couple of parts are written in a way that keep you turning the page to see what will happen next.