Search - The Venetian Betrayal (Cotton Malone, Bk 3)

I think Berry uses a formula, or at the very least common structural points. I read The Alexandria Link and this book. Let's see: a bad guy who is actually a good guy, some house or building gets burned down, searching for some obscure historical entity in the Middle East/Eastern Soviet Bloc, US presidential involvement...let alone the same five characters. I realize that he wants to keep the same characters working through many books, but give me a break. Get a plot that is different! Getting through this was work. I almost quit on it.