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The Columbus Affair (2012)

by Steve Berry(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0345526511 (ISBN13: 9780345526519)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Ballantine Books

review 1: The Columbus Affair raises many unanswered questions about Christopher Columbus. There is plenty of action and some suspense. The story takes place in multiple locations from Florida, to Jamaica, and Prague. I really enjoy hearing, at the end of the book, about what is factual in the book along with the fictional. I would not likely have ever read the print version, but the it's a good audio for the commute.
review 2: There has been speculation for many years that Christopher Columbus was Jewish and that his voyages to The New World were an attempt to find a new home for Jews who were threatened by the Spanish Inquisition. In fact, his daughter-in-law received Jamaica from the Spanish crown and it was a haven for Jews for 150 years. In THE COLUMBUS AFFAI... moreR, Steve Berry builds on this theory and adds a touch that his mission was to move three artifacts from the original Temple in Jerusalem to safety. While he allegedly accomplishes this task, some modern day people seek out the hiding place for these items with diverse ideas of what to do with them when they are located. The main character, Tom Sagan, was a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist who was exposed as a fraud after one of his reports turned out to be a fraud. Disgraced, he began ghost writing best selling novels. His marriage ended in divorce after it became clear that he was more committed to his work than to his wife and daughter. His daughter, Alle, now in her twenties, hasn’t seen him for several years and despises him. She has teemed up with Zachariah Simon and believes she is helping him to save the items. The story is primarily located in Jamaica, where the relics are believed to be hidden, but also travels to Florida, Vienna, and Prague. It alternates between Columbus’s time and the present. It is filled with adventure, deceit, treachery, and murder. While the book is based on fact, it is primarily fiction. It is well-written and engaging, though it does have a few errors. For example, regarding the coffin of one person, it states, “It took a few minutes to pry off. Long nails had been used, which was appropriate. Abiram would have kept things traditional.” Wooden pegs, not nails, are used in traditional Jewish coffins. At the end of the book, Berry relates what parts of the book are fact, which are fiction, and which might be either. less

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