Book Log 2008 #27: The Venetian Betrayal by Steve Berry

Cotton Malone is back, and this time he's set on the trail of Alexander the Great's resting place, which is alluded to in ancient texts as the place where one can also find a cure for a mysterious "fever" that seems a lot like HIV. Competing against Malone is the prime minister of a new country formed out of several current central Asian nations, who wants the cure as part of a power play that will see her unleash biological weapons against bordering countries.

The book follows the usual template for entries in this series - lots of international travel and chases - but it's better than The Alexandria Link, which had too much of both to actually care about plot. Not that you'll mistake this for War and Peace, but it's a reasonably entertaining thriller more in line with Berry's earlier books, if still not quite as good as them.