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The Omega Factor Audio CD – Unabridged, 7 June 2022
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Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations' Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick's job is to protect the world's cultural artifacts--anything and everything from countless lesser-known objects to national treasures.
When Nick travels to Belgium for a visit with a woman from his past, he unwittingly stumbles on the trail of a legendary panel from the Ghent Altarpiece, stolen in 1934 under cover of night and never seen since. Soon Nick is plunged into a bitter conflict, one that has been simmering for nearly two thousand years. On one side is the Maidens of Saint-Michael, les Vautours--the Vultures--a secret order of nuns and the guardians of a great truth. Pitted against them is the Vatican, which has wanted for centuries to both find and possess what the nuns guard. Because of Nick the maidens have finally been exposed, their secret placed in dire jeopardy--a vulnerability that the Vatican swiftly moves to exploit utilizing an ambitious cardinal and a corrupt archbishop, both with agendas of their own.
From the tranquil canals of Ghent, to the towering bastions of Carcassonne, and finally into an ancient abbey high in the French Pyrenees, Nick Lee must confront a modern-day religious crusade intent on eliminating a shocking truth from humanity's past. Success or failure--life and death--all turn on the Omega Factor.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGrand Central Publishing
- Publication date7 June 2022
- Dimensions13.97 x 3.94 x 14.99 cm
- ISBN-101668604779
- ISBN-13978-1668604779
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"(Berry) proves once again that he has a genuine feel for the factual gaps that give history its tantalizing air of the unknown."--The New York Times
"Berry is the master scientist with a perfect formula for the bestseller lists."--Associated Press
"Berry pumps the veins of history with action-packed adrenaline."--The Chicago Tribune
"Bestseller Berry once again shows there's no working author more skilled at combining thrilling adventure with engrossing historical detail."--Publishers Weekly
"Nick is a good character, with plenty of room to grow. Here's one vote for Berry making a series out of Nick's adventures."--Booklist
"Prolific writer Steve Berry has been creating intelligent, top-shelf fiction for decades."--bookreporter.com
"Berry once again smoothly blends action and history. Dan Brown fans will want to check this one out."--Publishers Weekly
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- Publisher : Grand Central Publishing; Unabridged edition (7 June 2022)
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 1668604779
- ISBN-13 : 978-1668604779
- Dimensions : 13.97 x 3.94 x 14.99 cm
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About the author

Steve Berry is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of sixteen Cotton Malone adventures, five stand-alone thrillers, and several works of short fiction. His books have been translated into 41 languages with 25,000,000 copies in 52 countries. They consistently appear in the top echelon of The New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller lists. Somewhere in the world, every thirty seconds, a Steve Berry book is sold.
History lies at the heart of every Steve Berry novel. It’s his passion, one he shares with his wife, Elizabeth, which led them to create History Matters, a foundation dedicated to historic preservation. Since 2009 Steve and Elizabeth have crossed the country to save endangered historic treasures, raising money via lectures, receptions, galas, luncheons, dinners, and their popular writers’ workshops. To date, 3,500 students have attended those workshops, with over $1.5 million dollars raised.
Steve’s devotion to historic preservation was recognized by the American Library Association, which named Steve its spokesperson for National Preservation Week. Among his other honors are the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award; the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award given by Poets & Writers; the Anne Frank Human Writes Award; and the Silver Bullet, bestowed by International Thriller Writers for his philanthropic work. He has been chosen both the Florida and Georgia Writer of the Year. He’s also an emeritus member of the Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board. In 2010, a NPR survey named The Templar Legacy one of the top 100 thrillers ever written.
Steve was born and raised in Georgia, graduating from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University. He was a trial lawyer for 30 years and held elective office for 14 of those years. He is a founding member of International Thriller Writers—a group of nearly 6,000 thriller writers from around the world—and served three years as its co-president.
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Steve Berry provides history, clarity and poses questions that keep you interested until the end.
There has to be a follow on from this??
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Good take over from cotton
Get on with it
Good luck. We are waiting

Earlier this year I wrote to Steve Berry explaining how I am completely hooked on his stories and was delighted when busy as he obviously is, he took the trouble to reply and wrote the next story would be in France!
Never did I expect to receive such a kind reply or to have been last summer to Carcassonne and that area, where Steve has set part of his story.
In my opinion Nick and the omega factor will be a hit because of course it mixes the present and past, with a few drops of intrigue and just the right amount of suspense. Buy it, read it and enjoy it. I did, it's great 👍


Reviewed in Canada on 15 June 2022


Berry’s prose is no pleasure. Convoluted, platitudinous, filled with unnecessary and redundant adjectives and adverbs, burdened by a wholesale reliance on the passive voice, and overwhelmed by modifying clauses that often make little sense, the writing struck me as tortured, painfully amateurish, or just plain sloppy. For example, consider the following passages:
“The curtain of time parted in his mind. It was like nine years ago again, and that familiar connection clicked. But he forced his thoughts to the present. “We have to get out of here.”
and
“Another corner turned and they were now riverside, paralleling a waist-high stone wall.”
and
“More rounds were fired.”
and
“Nothing would be learned here.”
and
“Catharism cast a simplicity that many found appealing. Love thy neighbor and the peace that goodness and honesty brought.”
and
“Louis Tallard lay on his back, sprawled across an oak table, his hands and arms tied to each of the table’s four legs, his head angled downward over the side.” (Does poor Mr. Tallard have four arms and hands? Might Mr. Berry have meant to say arms and legs?)
The storytelling itself is also deficient. It’s filled with digressions. Mr. Berry has a curious habit of interrupting his action scenes with lengthy descriptions of character background and motivation, and/or medieval history. I’m all for character development and history. But not in the middle of a scene that’s supposed to have readers on the edge of their seats. There are also a number of logical inconsistencies that took me out of the story and damaged its credibility.
The characters are stock and are neither charming nor compelling. We’re not given a James Bond (Ian Fleming) or a Jason Bourne (Robert Ludlum) or a Gabriel Allon (Daniel Silva). Instead, we’re treated to an investigator who seems to have no special talent except the ability to carry a torch for a woman he should have gotten over years ago. And his motivations, as well as the motivations of other characters, seem not well thought out and thus lack credibility.
All in all, a two-star performance—and that’s a gift.