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000737825 1001_ $$aBerry, Steve,$$d1955-$$eauthor.
000737825 24514 $$aThe patriot threat /$$cSteve Berry.
000737825 250__ $$aSt. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
000737825 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bSt. Martin's Paperbacks,$$c2016.
000737825 300__ $$a545 pages ;$$c20 cm
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000737825 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
000737825 338__ $$avolume$$bnc$$2rdacarrier
000737825 500__ $$aIncludes excerpt from: The 14th colony.
000737825 520__ $$a"Once a member of an elite intelligence division within the Justice Department, Malone is now a retired bookshop owner in Denmark. But when his former boss, Stephanie Nelle, asks him to track a rogue North Korean who may have acquired some top secret Treasury Department files-the kind that could bring the United States to its knees-Malone is vaulted into a harrowing twenty-four-hour chase that begins on the canals in Venice and ends in the remote highlands of Croatia. With appearances by Franklin Roosevelt, Andrew Mellon, a curious painting that still hangs in the National Gallery of Art, and some eye-opening revelations about the dollar bill, Malone's high-stakes investigation will ultimately beg the question: What if the federal income tax is illegal? Now it's up to him to find the answer-at all costs."-- Page [4] of cover.
000737825 520__ $$aThe 16th Amendment to the Constitution legalized federal income tax, but what if there were problems with the 1913 ratification of that amendment? Problems that call into question decades of tax collecting, and could even bring down the US economy. There is a surprising truth to this possibility a truth wholly entertained by Steve Berry, a top-ten New York Times bestselling writer, in his new thriller, The Patriot Threat. His protagonist, Cotton Malone, once a member of an elite intelligence division within the Justice Department known as the Magellan Billet, is now retired. But when his former boss, Stephanie Nelle, asks him to track a rogue North Korean who may have acquired some top secret Treasury Department files the kind that could bring the United States to its knees. Malone is vaulted into a harrowing twenty-four-hour chase that begins on the water in Venice and ends in the remote highlands of Croatia. With appearances by Franklin Roosevelt, Andrew Mellon, and a curious painting that still hangs in the National Gallery of Art, Steve Berry's trademark mix of history and suspense is 90% fact and 10% exciting speculation, a provocative thriller that poses a dangerous question. What if the federal income tax is illegal?
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000737825 650_0 $$aMalone, Cotton (Fictitious character)$$vFiction.
000737825 650_0 $$aIntelligence service$$zUnited States$$vFiction.
000737825 650_0 $$aIncome tax$$zUnited States$$vFiction.
000737825 650_0 $$aOfficial secrets$$zUnited States$$vFiction.
000737825 650_0 $$aConspiracies$$zUnited States$$vFiction.
000737825 650_0 $$aConstitutional amendments$$xRatification$$vFiction.
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000737825 655_7 $$aThrillers (Fiction)$$2lcgft
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