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Informationen zum Autor Clive Cussler is the author or coauthor of over fifty previous books in five bestselling series! including Dirk Pitt®! NUMA® Files! Oregon ® Files! Isaac Bell! and Sam and Remi Fargo. His nonfiction works include Built for Adventure : The Classic Automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt ! and Built to Thrill:More Classic Automobiles from Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt! plus The Sea Hunters and The Sea Hunters II ; these 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 ship Hunley. He lives in Colorado and Arizona. Justin Scott ’s novels include The Shipkiller and Normandie Triangle ; the Ben Abbott detective series; and modern sea thrillers published under his pen name! Paul Garrison. He is the coauthor with Clive Cussler of five Isaac Bell novels. He lives in Connecticut. From the Hardcover edition. Klappentext When Detective Isaac Bell's mentor is shot! the turn-of-the-century investigator traces the attack from a booze-smuggling operation back to a team of international saboteurs in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series. It is 1920! and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Isaac Bell's boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed while leading the high-speed chase of a rum-running vessel! Bell swears to him that he will hunt down the men responsible. But Bell doesn't know what he is getting into. When a witness to Van Dorn's shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner invented by the Russian secret police! it becomes clear that these are no ordinary criminals. In a trail that leads from the ravages of post-World-War-I Europe to the speakeasies of New York! to the lawless streets of Detroit and Florida's lavish beachside resorts! Isaac tracks the footsteps of a enterprise more ingenious and far-reaching than any he has ever known. For this is no mere bootlegging operation! but a powerful international organization with the very downfall of America in its sights . . . From the Hardcover edition. Zusammenfassung When Detective Isaac Bell's mentor is shot! the turn-of-the-century investigator traces the attack from a booze-smuggling operation back to a team of international saboteurs in this #1 New York Times– bestselling series. It is 1920! and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Isaac Bell’s boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed while leading the high-speed chase of a rum-running vessel! Bell swears to him that he will hunt down the men responsible. But Bell doesn’t know what he is getting into. When a witness to Van Dorn’s shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner invented by the Russian secret police! it becomes clear that these are no ordinary criminals. In a trail that leads from the ravages of post-World-War-I Europe to the speakeasies of New York! to the lawless streets of Detroit and Florida’s lavish beachside resorts! Isaac tracks the footsteps of a enterprise more ingenious and far-reaching than any he has ever known. For this is no mere bootlegging operation! but a powerful international organization with the very downfall of America in its sights . . . From the Hardcover edition. ...
