A review by ljjohnson8
The Jefferson Key by Steve Berry

3.0

Not my favorite Cotton Malone, but not my least favorite either. There is a secret organization of rich, powerful men (isn't there always?) called the Commonwealth, whose ancestors were early America's privateers, and they continue those pirate-y ways in modern day U.S. Our intrepid Cotton becomes entangled with them, along with other favorite characters like the Prez, Stephanie Nelle, and Cassiopeia, etc. There's lots of Cassiopeia in this one, which is a very good thing. There is a search for an antique document that Andrew Jackson hid and the action is non-stop and well-done. Loved the motorcycle at the hotel and the flooding caves in Nova Scotia. But I do prefer Cotton globe-trotting in far flung places - the U.S. locales were pretty mundane.