A review by afox98
The Venetian Betrayal by Steve Berry

3.0

Really more like 3 1/2 stars. I liked the story but there were parts I just skimmed, and for the last quarter of the book, I was just wanting it to be done because it seemed to be dragging. Cotton Malone is back and gets dragged into a mess in the fictional Central Asian Federation, where the supreme minister lets her ambition and ruthlessness dominate her rule. Her obsession with Alexander the great guides her as she and her cohorts develop biological weapons. She was absolutely vicious. Cotton and his friends and colleagues get involved when it is discovered that the supreme minister had a friend killed in her pursuit of elephant medallions related to Alexander the great. Lots of interesting history about Alexander.