02088cam a2200289 4500 137502209 TxAuBib 20130520120000.0 110314s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011009396 9780345505514 hardcover : acid-free paper $26.00 0345505514 hardcover : acid-free paper $26.00 TxAuBib Berry, Steve. The Jefferson key : a novel / Steve Berry. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2011. 456 p. : maps ; 25 cm. Cotton Malone ; 7 Four United States presidents have been assassinated -- in 1865, 1881, 1901, and 1963 -- each murder seemingly unrelated and separated by time. But what if those presidents were all killed for the same reason: a clause in the United States Constitution -- contained within Article 1, Section 8 -- that would shock Americans? This question is what faces former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone in his latest adventure. When a bold assassination attempt is made against President Danny Daniels in the heart of Manhattan, Malone risks his life to foil the killing -- only to find himself at dangerous odds with the Commonwealth, a secret society of pirates first assembled during the American Revolution. In their most perilous exploit yet, Malone and Cassiopeia Vitt race across the nation and take to the high seas. Along the way they break a secret cipher originally possessed by Thomas Jefferson, unravel a mystery concocted by Andrew Jackson, and unearth a centuries-old document forged by the Founding Fathers themselves, one powerful enough -- thanks to that clause in the Constitution -- to make the Commonwealth unstoppable. 20130520. Malone, Cotton (Fictitious character) Fiction. Code And Cipher Stories. Presidents Assassination attempts Fiction. Suspense fiction. Cotton Malone ; 7.