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Zusatztext Globe and Mail Fiction Bestseller “The Isaac Bell series continues to tell compelling stories. Tidbits of history are sprinkled throughout the narrative! and it’s fun to filter out fictional characters and events from historical facts.” —Associated Press “Cussler and Scott have written another wonderful page-turner. This is historical action-adventure fiction at its rip-roaring best!” — Library Journal (starred review) “As always in this series! the novel is very exciting! with excellent pacing and some very well-drawn characters. Cussler is a perennial A-lister! popularity-wise! and his Isaac Bell novels are the pick of his prodigious litter.” — Booklist “The seventh page-turner featuring indomitable detective Isaac Bell—great fun from one of the better Cussler series.” — Kirkus Reviews Informationen zum Autor Clive Cussler is the author of more than fifty books in five bestselling series, including Dirk Pitt, NUMA Files, Oregon Files, Isaac Bell, and Fargo. His life nearly parallels that of his hero Dirk Pitt. Whether searching for lost aircraft or leading expeditions to find famous shipwrecks, he and his NUMA crew of volunteers have discovered more than seventy-five lost ships of historic significance, including the long-lost Confederate submarine Hunley , which was raised in 2000 with much press publicity. Like Pitt, Cussler collects classic automobiles. His collection features more than eighty examples of custom coachwork. Cussler lives in Arizona and Colorado. Justin Scott ’s novels include The Shipkiller and Normandie Triangle ; the Ben Abbott detective series; and modern sea thrillers under the pen name Paul Garrison. He is the coauthor with Cussler of seven previous Isaac Bell novels, including the latest, The Gangster . Scott lives in Connecticut. Klappentext Detective Isaac Bell tracks a killer across the nation's oilfields in this adventure in the #1 New York Times-bestselling historical series. As Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly! the case takes a deadly turn. A sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil! and soon the assassin-shooting with extraordinary accuracy at seemingly impossible long range-kills Bell's best witness. Then the shooter detonates a terrible explosion that sets the victim's independent refinery ablaze. Bell summons his best detectives to hunt down the mysterious killer. But the murders-shootings! poisonings! staged accidents-have just begun as Bell tracks his phantom-like criminal adversary from the "oil fever" regions of Kansas and Texas to Washington! D.C.! to the tycoons' enclave of New York! to Russia's war-torn Baku oil fields on the Caspian Sea! and back to America for a final! desperate confrontation. And this one will be the most explosive of all. PROLOGUE 1899 PENNSYLVANIA “Do I hear a train?” asked Spike Hopewell. “Two trains,” said Bill Matters. The heavy, wet Huff! of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s 2-8-0 freight locomotives carried for miles in the still night air. “They’re on the main line, not here.” Spike was nervous. It made him talkative. “You know what I keep thinking? John D. Rockefeller locked up the oil business before most people were born.” “To hell with Rockefeller. To hell with Standard Oil.” Bill Matters had found their Achilles’ heel. After thirty years fighting the “Standard,” thirty years of getting driven into the mud, he was finally going to break their pipe line monopoly. Tonight. Under a sky white with stars, in a low-lying hayfield in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains. Wooded slopes ringed the field. Pennsylvania Railroad tracks crossed it, bridging the dip in the hills on a tall timber trestle. Spike Hopewell was going along with the scheme, against his ...
