Finally I
had come to the predicament that all the cotton Malone works are better
thrillers than the non-Malone thrillers, but the non-Malone series are have
better ideas and themes than the ones with Malone. One of the best historical thriller
writers of our age, STEVE BERRY had once again stuck the right chord-Christopher
Columbus and the conspiracy theories that circle around him.
Once again a
book with typical Steve berry elements like powerful politicians, kingmakers, religious
heads, professional killers, American heroes and some lost treasures with immeasurable
conspiracies circling around them. Interesting for history maniacs like me.
Pure entertainment. That’s it. The usual berry. Nothing more.
No, don’t think
that I am giving a negative review about the novel. It’s just that it has
nothing out of the ordinary berry plots. Just like all the other ‘cotton-malone-absent’
novels of Steve berry, this one too has a ’what-in -the –world’ theme related
to Columbus. Whatever you know about Columbus, the most famous renaissance explorer
and the new world he discovered is all gonna turn upside down after you finish
this book.
Christoforo Colombo for the French, Cristobal colon for the Italians
and Christopher Columbus for the British, is he actually CRISTOVAL ARNOLDO DE
YASSAI, a Jew???Otherwise forever trapped in the catholic inquisitional Spain, did
he actually mask his flee from Spain for finding a safer place to reside in as
a voyage commissioned by the monarchs for establishing new colonies? Was he a
Christian converso, still Jew at heart? Did he possess the lost temple treasures
of the Jews? Why did he have a Jewish translator on board the first of four voyages?
Whom did he wished actually to see in his supposed Asia? Was it the Jews? Was
his voyages financed by Ferdinand and Isabella? Or was it a wealthy Spanish Jew
turned Christian Alonso Sanchez de Huelva? Was he actually the first man to
discover the Americas? Or was it a Portuguese sailor and merchant Alonso Sanchez De Huelva? Though still
revered through out the Americas on October 12(though not every where!), why
was he never canonized by the Vatican despite of several pleas from many
places? Is it simply because he was actually a Jew?
Answers to
all theses intriguing questions had always perplexed historians throughout the
past five centuries. And Steve Berry’s “THE COLUMBUS AFFAIR” provides one of the
most possible answers and reasoning to all these questions, actually opening a
whole new world of knowledge to me. The book had gained so much fame throughout
the world, especially in USA, making it an international bestseller.
All the
ideas in the book are revolutionary, that, if all the hypothesis in this novel
could be proven somehow, then the entire world history from the 16 the century
would have to be re written. And that would obviously make Steve berry quite a
figure in history coz redefining the past is quite an achievement.
Go for it if
you are a history freak, especially the ‘Berry’ genre. As usual I ended up
reading this novel saying”I wish i could write like berry!” Still, waiting for
something more explosive by Steve Berry.
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