Synopses & Reviews
The new thriller in the #1 New York Timesbestselling Isaac Bell series from grand master of adventure Clive Cussler.
As Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefellers Standard Oil monopoly, the case takes a deadly turn. A sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and soon the assassinshooting with extraordinary accuracy at seemingly impossible long rangekills Bells best witness, a brave and likable man. Then the shooter detonates a terrible explosion that sets the victims independent refinery ablaze.
Bell summons his best detectives to scour the site of the crime for evidence. Who is the assassin and for whom did he kill? But the murdersshootings, poisonings, staged accidentshave 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 Russias 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.
About the Author
Clive Cussler is the author of many New York Times bestsellers, most recently The Thief, The Storm, and The Tombs. He lives in 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 four previous Isaac Bell novels. He lives in Connecticut.