Bestselling Author Steve Berry Ups His Story Game With The Masterpiece The Devil's Bible

About this episode

Steve Berry discusses his latest novel, The Devil's Bible, which intertwines history with a thrilling kidnapping plot.

This highly anticipated 20th installment is signature Berry, an unputdownable tale steeped in real history and locations – including a kidnapped Swedish princess, a precious medieval book with a controversial backstory, unforgettable and atmospheric locations across Stockholm and Sweden, cat-and-mouse spy games involving elite agents from the US and Russia, and so much more. When the younger sister of Sweden’s King Wilhelm I is kidnapped, former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is called in to quietly investigate before the public finds out. The ransom demand? An 800-year-old book – the Codex Gigas – the largest illuminated medieval manuscript in the world that has been kept in Stockholm for nearly 400 years. Along the way it has also acquired another more mysterious moniker... The Devil’s Bible. But there’s a problem: to gain entrance to NATO to protect themselves from an increasingly hostile Russia, Sweden has already agreed to return the Codex Gigas to the Czech Republic to secure their holdout vote towards membership, something Russia will do anything to prevent. It’s up to Cotton Malone and his associate Cassiopeia Vitt to locate the king’s sister, secure the…

People in this episode

Host: Arroe Collins

Guest: Steve Berry

Topics covered

• historical fiction
• international intrigue
• kidnapping
• spy games
• medieval manuscripts

Keywords

• Steve Berry
• The Devil's Bible
• Codex Gigas
• Cotton Malone
• international espionage

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Codex Gigas, The Devil’s Bible

Places: Sweden, Czech Republic, Stockholm

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