Nueva York, 1910. Aviadores pioneros participan en una carrera que tiene por objetivo cruzar Estados Unidos en 50 días. Isaac Bell deberá impedir el asesinato de una de las aviadoras favoritas. Preston Whiteway, dueño de un gran imperio periodistico de Nueva York, ha ofrecido un premio de cincuenta mil dolares al primer aviador que logre cruzar Estados Unidos en cincuenta dias. Josephine Frost es la candidata con mas posibilidades y la preferida del magnate, pero su marido, de quien acaba de separarse, esta decidido a vengarse de ella de la peor de las maneras. El detective privado Isaac Bell sera el encargado de protegerla. En esta trepidante aventura, el detective se enfrentara no solamente a un marido cruel y enloquecido, sino tambien a un grupo de aviadores dispuestos a sabotear a todos sus rivales para hacerse con esta fortuna. En los primeros años de la aviacion, accion y peligro confluyen en esta nueva aventura de Isaac Bell. La critica ha dicho...Bell se esta poniendo interesante. Uno de los mejores trabajos de Cussler.Booklist
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A novel of love and revenge set on the high seas, by New York Times bestselling author Justin Scott (co-author of The Thief, #1 New York Times bestseller), considered one of the best maritime thrillers ever written, back in print after twenty-five years.It was the largest moving object on the face of the earth, but for Carolyn and Peter Hardin it was a towering wall of steel bursting out of a squall at full speed, bearing down on their ketch Siren. In a few dramatic moments, Siren was shattered by the indifferent juggernaut. Struggling for his life, Peter Hardin felt the hand of his wife being torn from his grip as the huge white letters on the supertankers sternLeviathansteamed away.Thus begins an odyssey of revenge that embraces the distant waters of the world, from the titanic storms of the South Atlantic to the oil-slicked reaches of the Persian Gulf. Selected as one of the best thrillers ever published by The Thriller Writers of Americaand now back in print for the first time in twenty-five yearsThe Shipkiler is the story of one man determined to win at sea the justice he has been denied on land.
It is up to Isaac Bell to figure out who he is, what he is up to, and stop him, but he may already be too late . . . and the future of the world may just hang in the balance.
The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this.Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the killer to justice, he begins a manhunt which leads him into increasingly more alarming territory. Anna Pape was not alone in her fate - petite young blonde women like Anna are being murdered in cities across America.And the pattern goes beyond the physical resemblance of the victims - there are disturbing familiarities about the killings themselves that send a chill through even a man as experienced with evil as Bell. If he is right about his fears, then he is on the trail of one of the greatest monsters of his time.
It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special "Black Hand Squad," but the gangsters appear to be everywhere-so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders begin, each one of a man more powerful than the last, and as Bell discovers, to his dismay, the ultimate target may be the most powerful man of all.
Isaac Bell is back in this thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Timesbestselling grand master of adventure Clive Cussler. It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special Black Hand Squad, but the gangsters appear to be everywhereso much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders begin, each one of a man more powerful than the last, and as Bell discovers, to his dismay, the ultimate target may be the most powerful man of all
