The Jefferson Key - Ballantine Books - LC

Four United States presidents have been assassinatedin 1865, 1881, 1901, and 1963each murder seemingly unrelated and separated by time. But what if those presidents were all killed for the same reason: a clause in the United States Constitutioncontained within Article 1, Section 8that would shock Americans? This question is what faces former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone in his latest adventure. When a bold assassination attempt is made against President Danny Daniels inthe heart of Manhattan, Malone risks his life to foil the killingonly to find himself at dangerous odds with the Commonwealth, a secret society of pirates first assembled during the American Revolution. In their most perilous exploit yet, Malone and Cassiopeia Vitt race across the nation and take to the high seas. Along the way they break a secret cipher originally possessed by Thomas Jefferson, unravel a mystery concocted by Andrew Jackson, and unearth a centuries-old document forged by the Founding Fathers themselves, one powerful enoughthanks to that clause in the Constitutionto make the Commonwealth unstoppable.