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Steve Berry, author of The Devil's Bible: A Cotton Malone Novel

Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone is called to Sweden when the younger sister of King Wilhelm I is kidnapped. The ransom demand? Hand over an 800-year-old book, the Codex Gigas --- the largest illuminated medieval manuscript in the world. Claimed as war loot from Bohemia in 1648, it’s been kept in Stockholm for nearly 400 years. Along the way, it also acquired another more mysterious moniker: The Devil’s Bible. Now the Czech Republic wants the codex back, and Sweden has agreed to return it, but forces are at work to stop that deal from happening. The likely instigator? Russia. Which is also at the top of the list for possible kidnappers. It’s up to Cotton and Cassiopeia Vitt to locate the king’s sister, secure the codex and thwart the Russians. Yet nothing is as it seems.

Week of October 5, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of October 5th include the 20th installment in Steve Berry's Cotton Malone series, THE DEVIL’S BIBLE, a tale of mystery and intrigue stretching back over four centuries; SHADOW TICKET, Thomas Pynchon's first novel since 2013’s BLEEDING EDGE, which is set during the Great Depression and follows a private investigator in Milwaukee on a mission that ultimately takes him to Hungary amidst political and criminal intrigue; THE LADY ON ESPLANADE, the third entry in Karen White's Royal Street series, in which people and secrets from the past threaten to disrupt Nola Trenholm’s new life in New Orleans; and THE BOYS IN THE LIGHT by Nina Willner, an epic story of the triumph of good over evil that follows the parallel journeys of Company D and Eddie Willner, the author’s father, as they are caught up on two sides of World War II.