The Amber Room: A Novel
by Steve Berry
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Author: Steve BerryEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-11-27
ISBN: 0345504380
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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- ISBN13: 9780345504388
- Condition: New
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Book Review: The book is a great and easy read. Pure Berry--entertaining and light: full of historical facts to create his plot.
Summary: 4 Stars
The Amber Room by Steve Berry
The Amber room was created in St. Petersburg, Russia, in the mid XVIIIth century. It consisted of 100,000 pieces of jewel grade amber, cut 5mm thick, polished, sometimes heated to change the color, then glued jigsaw-puzzle-style onto oak panels and fashioned to walls 30 by 13 feet. There were also a variety of fanciful figurines, floral garlands, tulips, roses, seashells, monograms, and rocaille: all made of amber in shades of brown, red, yellow, and orange. It's resting place survived 170 years and the Russian revolution only to be looted by the Nazis in 1941. The panels disappeared in 1945 and have never been seen since. This book deals with theories and fictional characters of its looting and disappearance.
The maim characters are Judge Rachel Bates-Cutler and her ex husband Layers Paul Cutler. The Judge's father, Karol Borya Yvo and his friend Chapaer Dana have been corresponding about their dealings with the transport of the loot by Hermann Goring, Hitler's second in command and responsible for most of the art looting in WWII.
The bad guys are a group of nine very rich and eccentric European art collectors: "The Retrievers of Lost Antiquities"; mainly two of the respective families: Monica and Franz Fellner of Germany with their Acquisitor--the one that does all the stealing, killing and any illegal work to acquire the loot--Christian Knoll. The other family is Ernst
Loring of the Czech Republic and his Acquisitor, Suzanne Danzer.
Following leads thorough different pathways, Suzanne Danzer and Christian Knoll discover that Karl Bates, Rachel's father--who had changed his name back to Karol Borya-was in the "Russian Registry" as one of the prisoners involved in the theft of the Amber Room by Hermann Goring. Knoll gets to Borya and kills him.
In Borya's will, there are letters that disclose all the correspondence between Borya and his cell mate Chapaer Dana; with may lead to the localization of the famous Amber Room. Even though her father tells Rachel not to go after the Amber Room, she takes flight to Frankfurt and a rental to Burg Herz, Germany to find Chapaer Dana. Knoll paid a cabdriver to almost kill Rachel, so that he can save her, thus befriending her. He uses his charm to get all the information Rachel has. They are going to go together to visit Chapaer Dana.
Unfortunately, Suzanne Danzer beats both of them to Dana; and kills him before either one can talk to him--however she uses Dana to draw a map of a mine to create a trap for Knoll and Rachel. As they enter the mine, an explosion occurs, however both Rachel and Knoll survive: Knoll disappears and leaves Rachel behind. Rachel is rescued by tourists and understands that not only did Knoll left her there to die but she also remembers that Knoll had taken a knife and was about to kill her to kill her before the explosion occurred.
Suzanne had befriended Paul, and warned him about Knoll. When Rachel does not check in with him after two days, Paul goes to Germany, so Rachel wakes up in the hospital next to Paul. This is the beginning of their reconciliation.
Before long, they are in over their heads. Aided by a fortune hunter by the name of Wayland McCoy they are locked in a treacherous game with both killers--Knoll and Danzer--and they find themselves in a collision course with both The Fellners and Ernst Loring--the forces of greed, power and history itself.
The book is a great and easy read. Pure Berry--entertaining and light: full of historical facts to create his plot.
Summary of The Amber Room: A Novel
The Amber Room is one of the greatest treasures ever made by man: an entire room forged of exquisite amber, from its four massive walls to its finely crafted furniture. But it is also the subject of one of history?s most intriguing mysteries. Originally commissioned in 1701 by Frederick I of Prussia, the Room was later perfected Tsarskoe Selo, the Russian imperial city. In 1941, German troops invaded the Soviet Union, looting everything in their wake and seizing the Amber Room. When the Allies began the bombing of Germany in August 1944, the Room was hidden. And despite the best efforts of treasure hunters and art collectors from around the world, it has never been seen again.Now, two powerful men have set their best operatives loose in pursuit, and the hunt has begun once more. . . .
Life is good for Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler. She loves her job, loves her kids, and remains civil to her ex-husband, Paul. But everything changes when her father, a man who survived the horrors of World War II, dies under strange circumstances?and leaves behind clues to a secret he kept his entire life . . . a secret about something called the Amber Room.
Desperate to know the truth about her father?s suspicious dealings, Rachel takes off for Germany, with Paul close behind. Shortly after arriving, they find themselves involved with a cast of shadowy characters who all claim to share their quest. But as they learn more about the history of the treasure they seek, Rachel and Paul realize they?re in way over their heads. Locked in a treacherous game with ruthless professional killers and embroiled in a treasure hunt of epic proportions, Rachel and Paul suddenly find themselves on a collision course with the forces of power, evil, and history itself.
A brilliant adventure and a scintillating tale of intrigue, deception, art, and murder, The Amber Room is a classic tale of suspense?and the debut of a strong new voice in the world of the international thriller.
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