The Bishop’s Pawn - Steve Berry Audiobook

Written by Steve Berry
Read by Scott Brick, Kevin R. Free
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Bestseller Berry’s 13th thriller featuring U.S. government operative Cotton Malone is an effective conspiracy yarn centered on Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination.

In the present, Malone has a secret meeting in Atlanta with an unnamed man who sent him a note stating, “Fifty years have passed. Bring them.” Flash back to 18 years earlier. Malone, a member of the JAG Corps, is recruited by the Justice Department’s Stephanie Nelle to handle a special assignment—to retrieve a waterproof case containing a stolen Double Eagle coin, worth millions, from a sunken boat off the south Florida coast.

Malone makes the dive, only to find that he hadn’t been told the truth; the case is also the target of some armed men and turns out to contain confidential documents relating to an FBI program connected with King’s murder in Memphis in 1968. Berry makes Malone accessible to newcomers by presenting his numerous rookie mistakes as a field operative, but the anticlimactic reveal may disappoint some readers….Publishes Weekly

Scott Brick reprises his narration of the Cotton Malone series. Brick’s gutsy, virile voice is appropriate for Malone’s first-person recounting of his first case with the Justice Department. He unfolds astonishing events from 18 years earlier, and Brick portrays his regrets and bewilderment as he unravels the battle between the Justice Department and FBI over secret files from the Martin Luther King assassination. Brick narrates the historic African-American voices with respect but doesn’t differentiate between male characters to clarify the complex dialogues. Dr. King’s writings are read by Kevin Free, whose flat, youthful voice is as unlike the great orator’s as can be imagined but at least avoids a poor imitation. ….. � AudioFile 2018,