The Columbus Affair: A Novel

The Columbus Affair is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2012 by Steve Berry

Map copyright © 2012 by David Lindroth, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Berry, Steve.

The Columbus affair : a novel / Steve Berry.

p. cm

eISBN: 978-0-345-52653-3

1. Journalists—Fiction. 2. Quests (Expeditions)—Fiction.

3. Treasure troves—Fiction. 4. Columbus, Christopher–Fiction. I. Title.

PS3602.E764C65 2012

813’.6—dc23 2012009325

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Jacket design: Marc J. Cohen

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