The Chase: Isaac Bell #1

by Clive Cussler (Author)

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  2007

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  With intricate plotting, dazzling set pieces and not one, but two, extraordinary villains, this is one of the wildest, most entertaining historical thrillers in years. April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. Inside is all that remains of three men who died forty-four years before. But it is neither the engine nor its grisly contents that interest the people watching nearby. It is what is about to come next ...

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  2008

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  The first adventure featuring turn-of-the-century detective Isaac Bell follows the determined private investigator as he pursues a blood-thirsty bank robber and perhaps one of the world s first sociopaths in the launch of this #1 New York Times-bestselling series. In 1950, the rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. And with it, the bloody deeds of a criminal mastermind from the turn of the twentieth century are brought to the surface. In 1906, the western states of America suffer a string of bank robberies by a single man who then cold-bloodedly murders any and all witnesses, and vanishes without a trace. Fed up by the depredations of The Butcher Bandit, the U.S. government brings in the best man it can find a tall, lean, no-nonsense detective named Isaac Bell, who has caught thieves and killers from coast to coast. But Bell has never had a challenge like this one. From Arizona to Colorado to the streets of San Francisco during its calamitous earthquake and fire, he pursues a fiend who seems to draw pleasure from the challenge and a woman who may to hold the key to the man s identity. As Bell begins to suspect a new term used among top psychologists, sociopath, may describe his target, the Butcher Bandit turns the chase around on him. The hunter becomes the hunted. And soon, it will take all of Bell s skills not merely to prevail . . . but to survive. Filled with intricate plotting, Cussler s signature dazzling set pieces, and not one but two extraordinary villains, The Chase is the master working at the height of his powers.

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