02904cam a2200445 i 4500 412414484 TxAuBib 20200101120000.0 150129s2015||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2015004130 9781410476227 lg. print : hbk. 1410476227 lg. print : hbk. (OCoLC)898161757 DLC rda eng DLC IG# BTCTA JZ6 OJ4 JP3 YCC OCLCO NDS DAD TxAuBib rda Berry, Steve, 1955- The patriot threat [Large Print] / Steve Berry. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015. ©2015. 651 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Cotton Malone series ; ; 10 Includes bibliographical references in the writer's note, pages 635-648. The 16th Amendment to the Constitution legalized federal income tax, but what if there were problems with the 1913 ratification of that amendment? Problems that call into question decades of tax collecting, and could even bring down the US economy. There is a surprising truth to this possibility a truth wholly entertained by Steve Berry, a top-ten New York Times bestselling writer, in his new thriller, The Patriot Threat. His protagonist, Cotton Malone, once a member of an elite intelligence division within the Justice Department known as the Magellan Billet, is now retired. But when his former boss, Stephanie Nelle, asks him to track a rogue North Korean who may have acquired some top secret Treasury Department files the kind that could bring the United States to its knees. Malone is vaulted into a harrowing twenty-four-hour chase that begins on the water in Venice and ends in the remote highlands of Croatia. With appearances by Franklin Roosevelt, Andrew Mellon, and a curious painting that still hangs in the National Gallery of Art, Steve Berry's trademark mix of history and suspense is 90% fact and 10% exciting speculation, a provocative thriller that poses a dangerous question. What if the federal income tax is illegal? 20200101. Malone, Cotton Fictitious character Fiction. United States Constitution 16th Amendment Fiction. Intelligence service United States Fiction. Income tax United States Fiction. Official secrets United States Fiction. Conspiracies United States Fiction. Constitutional amendments Ratification Fiction. Taxation Fiction. Political fiction. Large type books. Thrillers (Fiction.) Cotton Malone series ; ; 10.