A review by bskts4ver
The King's Deception by Steve Berry

4.0

After I read Mr. Berry's "The Jefferson Key", I said that it was my favorite of his Cotton Malone series of books, but now that I've read this, I have to say that this is my favorite so far. If you like English history, especially the era of Elizabeth I, like I do, then you'll love this book. The premise is that after the death of Henry VIII, a secret so great was kept throughout the ages, a secret that could re-write English history and that could also include great wealth. This secret is sought by many and in this book, the good guys and the bad guys tend to blur in the race to uncover the secret. Although Cotton is the hero of this series and a character in this book, I feel that the book concentrated more on Cotton's son, Gary and an London street orphan who happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. This book also addresses what we learned in a previous book that Gary isn't Cotton's biological son and we follow Gary in his quest to find his birth father.