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Zusatztext “Another wonderful page-turner.”— Library Journal (starred review) “The Isaac Bell series continues to tell compelling stories.”—The Associated Press “Another fine entry in a strong series. Cussler is a perennial A-lister! popularity-wise! and his Isaac Bell novels are the pick of his prodigious litter.”— Booklist “[A] laudable historical action novel.”— Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor CLIVE CUSSLER is the author or coauthor of more than fifty previous books in five bestselling series, including Dirk Pitt®, NUMA® Files, Oregon® Files, Isaac Bell, and Fargo.His most recent New York Times bestselling novels are The Eye of Heaven , Mirage , and Ghost Ship . His nonfiction works include Built for Adventure: The Classic Automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt , plus The Sea Hunters , and Th e Sea Hunters II ; the latter two describe the true adventures of the real NUMA®, which, led by Cussler, searches for lost ships of historic significance. With his crew of volunteers, Cussler has discovered more than sixty ships, including the long-lost Confederate submarine Hunley. He lives in Colorado. JUSTIN SCOTT’s novels include The Shipkiller and Normandie Triangle ; the Ben Abbott detective series; and five modern sea thrillers published under his pen name Paul Garrison. The coauthor with Clive Cussler of four previous Isaac Bell novels, he lives in Connecticut. Klappentext Detective Isaac Bell is on the hunt for justice in this extraordinary adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. It is 1921, and Prohibition is in full swing-even as millions still imbibe and ruthless criminals get rich overnight by selling them booze. Cops, Feds, and Coast Guardsmen are all susceptible to bribery. But when Bell's boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is shot and near-fatally wounded while chasing bootleggers, he enters the fray. Bell promises Van Dorn that he will try to save the detective agency from the corrupting effects of Prohibition. But when the first witness to Van Dorn's shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner invented by the CHEKA, the Russian Communist secret police, Bell finds himself combating men far more deadly than ordinary criminals. And he's about to fight a one-man war…1 Two men in expensive clothes, a bootlegger and his bodyguard, dangled a bellboy upside down from the Hotel Gotham’s parapet. The bodyguard held him by his ankles, nineteen stories above 55th Street. It was night. No one saw, and the boy’s screams were drowned out by the Fifth Avenue buses, the El thundering up Sixth, and trolley bells clanging on Madison. The bootlegger shouted down at him, “Every bellhop in the hotel sells my booze! Whatsamatter with you?” Church spires and mansion turrets reached for him like teeth. “Last chance, sonny.” A tall man in a summer suit glided silently across the roof. He drew a Browning automatic from his coat and a throwing knife from his boot. He mounted the parapet and pressed the pistol to the body- guard’s temple. “Hold tight.” The bodyguard froze. The bootlegger shrank from the blade pricking his throat. “Who the—” “Isaac Bell. Van Dorn Agency. Sling him in on the count of two.” “If you shoot, we drop him.” “You’ll have holes in your heads before he passes the eighteenth floor . . . On my count: One! Pull him up. Two! Swing him over the edge . . . Lay him on the roof— Are you O.K., son?” The bellboy had tears in his eyes. He nodded, head bobbing like a puppet. “Go downstairs,” Isaac Bell told him, sliding his knife back in his boot and shifting the automatic to his left hand. “Tell your boss Chief Investigator Bell said to give you the week off and a fifty-dollar bonus for standing up to bootleggers.” The bodyguard chose his moment well. When the tall d...
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Another wonderful page-turner. Library Journal (starred review)
The Isaac Bell series continues to tell compelling stories. The Associated Press
Another fine entry in a strong series. Cussler is a perennial A-lister, popularity-wise, and his Isaac Bell novels are the pick of his prodigious litter. Booklist
[A] laudable historical action novel. Publishers Weekly
