<p><b><i>The history of America's income-tax law can be found in the 16th Amendment to the Constitution. But someone has unearthed a secret that calls that law into question. Now it's up to Cotton Malone to learn the truth. . .</i></b></p><p>Once a member of an elite intelligence division within the Justice Department, Malone is now a retired bookshop owner in Denmark. 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 canals in Venice and ends in the remote highlands of Croatia.</p><p><b>"Loaded with action, character sketches, [and] fascinating history...along the lines of <i>The Da Vinci Code</i>."</b><b>-</b><i><b>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</b></i></p><p>With appearances by Franklin Roosevelt, Andrew Mellon, a curious painting that still hangs in the National Gallery of Art, and some eye-opening revelations about the dollar bill, Malone's high-stakes investigation will ultimately beg the question: What if the federal income tax is illegal? Now it's up to him to find the answer-at all costs.</p><p><b>"One of Berry's best books to date."</b><b>-</b><i><b>The New York Times</b></i></p>
