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Title: The Columbus Affair

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Steve Berry

Narrator: Scott Brick

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-15-12

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

He was called by many names - Columb, Colom, Col - but we know him as Christopher Columbus. Many questions about him exist: Where was he born, raised, and educated? Where did he die? How did he discover the New World? None have ever been properly answered. And then there is the greatest secret of all....

From Steve Berry, New York Times best-selling author, comes an exciting new adventure - one that challenges everything we thought we knew about the discovery of America.

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Tom Sagan has written hard-hitting articles from hot spots around the world. But when a controversial report from a war-torn region is exposed as a fraud, his professional reputation crashes and burns. Now he lives in virtual exile - haunted by bad decisions and the shocking truth he can never prove: That his downfall was a deliberate act of sabotage by an unknown enemy. But before Sagan can end his torment with the squeeze of a trigger, fate intervenes in the form of an enigmatic stranger with a request that cannot be ignored.

Zachariah Simon has the look of a scholar, the soul of a scoundrel, and the zeal of a fanatic. He also has Tom Sagan's estranged daughter at his mercy. Simon desperately wants something only Sagan can supply: the key to a 500-year-old mystery, a treasure with explosive political significance in the modern world. For both Simon and Sagan the stakes are high, the goal intensely personal, the consequences of opposing either man potentially catastrophic. On a perilous quest from Florida to Vienna to Prague and finally to the mountains of Jamaica, the two men square off in a dangerous game. Along the way, both of their lives will be alter - and everything we know about Christopher Columbus will change.

Critic Reviews:

"As always with Steve Berry, you're educated about significant things while your knuckles are turning white and the pages are flying by." (New York Times best-selling author David Baldacci)

"Berry raises this genre's stakes." (The New York Times)

"Steve Berry writes with the self-assured style of a veteran." (New York Times best-selling author Dan Brown)

Members Reviews:

Who was Columbus?

With the controversial discussions about allowing statues of Columbus to remain standing, I was intrigued by the title of this novel, being a descendant of Italian immigrants. This being a novel of fiction, what we as readers get is not answers but more mystery.

I did enjoy the descriptions of the various locations throughout the book ( Jamaica, Florida, Prague) as seen through the eyes of the characters. The tension of the areas around the city of Jerusalem as described in book is reflected again in real life by announcement of our current President to move embassy to that city. It was sad to read about the long historical oppression of Jews.

This novel doesn't involve Cotton but mentions the organization that he was involved in with Stephanie Nelle. Our protagonist is a former Pulitzer prize winning journalist who was deliberately destroyed by a deceptive story which ruined his total reputation and marriage. He becomes reborn to life and reunited with his daughter when he assumes his designated role.

convoluted, poorly wirtten

a terrible imitation Da Vinci code (by dan brown).