The Lincoln Myth (60 page)

As always, to my wife, Elizabeth, the most special of all.

I’ve dedicated novels to parents, children, grandchildren, an aunt, my old writers group, my editor, agents, and business associates. When Elizabeth and I married, included in the package was Augustus Eli Reinhardt IV. At the time he was four. Now he’s a teenager. Eli worships his mother and his father. But I’d like to think he holds a small place for me, too. Like Cotton Malone, I’m not the most cuddly guy in the world.

But that doesn’t mean we don’t care.

So this one’s for Eli.

ALSO BY STEVE BERRY

NOVELS
The Amber Room
The Romanov Prophecy
The Third Secret
The Templar Legacy
The Alexandria Link
The Venetian Betrayal
The Charlemagne Pursuit
The Paris Vendetta
The Emperor’s Tomb
The Jefferson Key
The Columbus Affair
The King’s Deception

EBOOKS
“The Balkan Escape”
“The Devil’s Gold”
“The Admiral’s Mark”
“The Tudor Plot”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

S
TEVE
B
ERRY
is the
New York Times
and #1 internationally bestselling author of nine Cotton Malone adventures, four stand-alone novels, and four short story originals. He has seventeen million books in print, translated into forty languages and sold in fifty-one countries. With his wife, Elizabeth, he is the founder of History Matters, a foundation dedicated to historic preservation. He was awarded the 2013 Writers for Writers Award from
Poets & Writers Magazine
, has twice acted as national spokesman for the American Library Association’s Preservation Week, and is a member of the Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board. He is a founding member of International Thriller Writers and served three years as its co-president. To learn more, visit
www.steveberry.org
.