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A review by qu33nofbookz
The Jefferson Key by Steve Berry
1.0
What a mess, this book needs a lot of editing to make it cohesive. It's like someone cut up the pages, tossed them in the air and picked them up and bound it all up for this book. It also isn't really what is advertised on the back. Women in this book are pretty in appearance but portrayed as inept cannon fodder except for the villainess. The pace is nonstop and unbelievable and just gets wilder and wilder. Also the government is blind, deaf and dumb, so is society. The pov shifts (there are WAY too many main characters and they have similar names) from page to page, paragraph to paragraph and even every other two sentences without any connections, lead-in, or relation to what just happened or was said just a sentence or two before. It gets confusing and is very annoying since the story, plot or pov gets jumbled. There is zero character development and the depth of the characters is as shallow as a tablespoon, they only have one feeling/emotion and their thinking is so single minded I am surprised they know what's happening around them at all. Also lots of talk/terms of a ship when there isn't one involved except briefly at the beginning and end of the story. A few scenes of graphic torture thrown in for shock value that don't need to be there at all.
Cotton Malone is summoned to a hotel room while on vacation with his girlfriend Cassiopeia by a former boss. When he gets there he stops the assassination President Danny Daniels and gets framed for it. But he knows the president who doesn't believe him guilty and points him in the direction of the real culprits. A modern day band of pirates who are angry that the power their families have abused for centuries is coming to an end and they are going to finally be punished for the abuse. There are many agencies that all have some kind of stake in this and they are all double-crossing and killing on another (in large quantities at an alarming pace that no one seems to care about) in a race to figure out a cipher that Thomas Jefferson used that can make the pirates invincible because of very broad language of the constitution.
Cotton Malone is summoned to a hotel room while on vacation with his girlfriend Cassiopeia by a former boss. When he gets there he stops the assassination President Danny Daniels and gets framed for it. But he knows the president who doesn't believe him guilty and points him in the direction of the real culprits. A modern day band of pirates who are angry that the power their families have abused for centuries is coming to an end and they are going to finally be punished for the abuse. There are many agencies that all have some kind of stake in this and they are all double-crossing and killing on another (in large quantities at an alarming pace that no one seems to care about) in a race to figure out a cipher that Thomas Jefferson used that can make the pirates invincible because of very broad language of the constitution.