One crazed family will kill to keep their secrets from being known. The Devil’s Triangle is an edge-of-your-seat story that brings together Leonardo Da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Moses’s staff, the Ark of the Covenant, weather control, and the Bermuda Triangle. Hold on to your seat. The storms—literal and figurative—that take place in this book will astound you.
From New York to Venice and from Rome to the Bermuda Triangle, the FBI and Kitsune are in a race against time to stop the Koath family, descendants of the Levites, from sending the mother of all storms to destroy Washington, D.C.
The story begins all the way back in April 1519 during the time of Leonardo Da Vinci. The great artist and inventor is about to die. His lover is there with him, and DaVinci asks him to burn the pages that contain drawings and instructions for an invention that he has not yet built. He fears that if someone gets hold of them and builds what he has drawn, that it will be more powerful than man can handle. These pages detail how to build a machine that could control the weather, a lightning machine.
Kitsune, the Fox, is a thief. She has been hired to steal the staff of Moses, or as some know it, Aaron’s rod. She does succeed in taking it from the museum where it is on display, but she is double-crossed by those who hired her to do this. That was a mistake.
a mini Ark of the Covenant, flickr
Kitsune is a criminal wanted by the FBI, but that doesn’t stop her from reaching out to them for help.
What they discover is that the world, all of civilization, is in danger because of what some very unstable people, Cassandra and Ajax Koath, are searching for—the Ark of the Covenant. If they find the Ark, they will be unstoppable. And they won’t hesitate to kill to get to it.
The intense fighting scenes are written in such a way that you are able to picture what is happening in your mind. This book was hard to put down, and even though it is 513 pages long, I read it in just two days.
I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. If you would like your own copy to read, I’ve provided an Amazon link for you below.
Amazon Link: The Devil’s Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle, flickr
Favorite Sentences:
If someone were ever able to control the weather, they could control the whole world.
She wondered again: did her unknown client really believe that what she carried in her hands was the very embodiment of power?
Few knew that her charm and beauty hid a coldness so profound it even occasionally gave Lilith pause.
He’d run across genius like this before, melded with all-out craziness, but nothing on this immense a scale.
He’d watched Louisa, forensics queen of the universe, spewing out fluent Spanish, throwing her weight around.
New Words Learned:
borage – a European boraginaceous plant, Borago officinalis, with star-shaped blue flowers. The young leaves have a cucumber-like flavor and are sometimes used in salads or as seasoning
Bridge of Sighs – a covered 16th-century bridge in Venice, between the Doges’ Palace and the prisons, through which prisoners were formerly led to trial or execution
Carabinieri – the Italian national police force, organized as a military unit and charged with maintaining public security and order as well as assisting local police
Doge’s Palace – a palace built in Venetian Gothic style, and one of the main landmarks of the city of Venice in northern Italy. The palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice, the supreme authority of the former Republic of Venice, opening as a museum in 1923.
Piazza San Marco – the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as la Piazza. In English, it is known as St. Mark’s Square.
Saint Mark’s Basilica – The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark, commonly known as Saint Mark’s Basilica, is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice, northern Italy.
vaporetto – a steam-powered passenger boat, as used on the canals in Venice
Skoda Octavia – The Škoda Octavia is a small family car produced by the Czech manufacturer Škoda Auto since 1996. It shares its name with an earlier Škoda model produced between 1959 and 1971. There have been three generations of the modern-era Octavia model to date, delivered with 5-door liftback or 5-door estate styles only.
venal – showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery
About the Authors:
Catherine Coulter is the New York Times bestselling author of 75 books. She lives in northern California with her three thriller cats and her thriller husband.
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author J.T. Ellison writes standalone domestic noir and psychological thriller series. She lives in Nashville with her husband and twin kittens.
