CLIVE CUSSLER

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For decades, Clive Cussler has been delighting readers with novels filledwith suspense, action and sheer audacity. Now he does it again, in one ofthe wildest, most entertaining historical thrillers in years. April 1950:The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of aMontana lake. Inside is all that remains of three men who died forty-fouryears before. But it is not the engine nor its grisly contents thatinterest the people watching nearby. It is what is about to comenext…. 1906: For two years, the western states of America have beensuffering an extraordinary crime spree: a string of bank robberies by asingle man who then cold-bloodedly murders any and all witnesses, and thenvanishes without a trace. Fed up by the depredations of “The ButcherBandit,” the U.S. government brings in the best man they can find– a tall, lean, no-nonsense detective named Isaac Bell who hascaught thieves and killers from coast to coast. But he has never had achallenge like this one. From Arizona to Colorado to the streets of SanFrancisco during its calamitous earthquake and fire, he pursues what isquickly becoming clear to him is the best criminal mind he has everencountered, and the woman who seems to hold the key to the man’sidentity. Using science, deduction and intuition, he repeatedly drawsnear, only to grasp at empty air, but at least he knows his pursuit ishaving an effect. Because his quarry is getting angry now, and has turnedthe chase back on him. The hunter has become the hunted. And soon, it willtake all of Bell’s skills not merely to prevail…but tosurvive.Filled with intricate plotting, his signature dazzling set pieces,and not one, but two, extraordinary villains, this is the master working atthe height of his powers.