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      Paperback The Wrecker (An Isaac Bell Adventure) Book
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      ISBN: 0425237702

      ISBN13: 9780425237700

      The Wrecker

      (Book #2 in the Isaac Bell Series)

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      Book Overview

      Detective Isaac Bell travels the early-twentieth-century American railways, driven by a sense of justice and a determination to stop a new mastermind reigning terror on a crucial express line in this #1 New York Times -bestselling series. A year of financial panic and labor unrest, 1907 sees train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express line. Desperate for help the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency. Van Dorn's best man, Isaac Bell, quickly discovers a mysterious saboteur haunting the hobo jungles of the West. Known only as the Wrecker, he recruits vulnerable accomplices from the down-and-out to attack the railroad, and then kills them afterward. The Wrecker traverses the vast spaces of the American West as if he had wings, striking wherever he pleases, causing untold damage and loss of human life. Who is he? What does he want? Is he a striker? An anarchist? A revolutionary determined to displace the "privileged few"? A criminal mastermind engineering some as yet unexplained scheme? Whoever he is, whatever his motives, the Wrecker knows how to create maximum havoc, and Bell senses that he is far from done--that, in fact, the Wrecker is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. If Bell doesn't stop him in time, more than a railroad could be at risk--it could be the future of the entire country. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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      Crime Investigation Detectives International Espionage Secret Societies Shipwrecks Treasure Hunt Underwater Exploration Adventure Thriller Action & Adventure

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      Rated 5 stars
      Awesome! was disappointed that I finished

      By Thriftbooks.com User,

      this book flowed so well to me. I was surprised and kind of disappointed to get to the end so quick. I truly enjoyed reading this book. Much more believable than "Spartan Gold", which was a complete disappointment. Isaac Bell and his fellow detectives from the Van Dorn Detective Agency once again save the day. A few surprises along the way. Was a good book to visualize along with. Could almost see the steam coming from...

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      Good things come to those who wait

      By Thriftbooks.com User,

      The second book in the Isaac Bell proves that good things come to those who wait. What we liked in the first Isaac Bell series are in this book plus more. Isaac Bell is self-confident without being arrogant, intelligent and methodically. He isn't afraid to face a foe in a gunfight or to admit that he is in love with a beautiful woman even when a spectacular beautiful young woman who happens to be the daughter of the rich...

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      Rated 5 stars
      Another Cussler Success

      By Thriftbooks.com User,

      We first met Isaac Bell in "The Chase" in an exciting historical thriller. Clive Cussler has another page turner hit with "The Wrecker." In the early years of the 20th Century the fastest and most "modern" method of travel was by rail and the fastest communication was via the telegraph. Clive Cussler sweeps us back to these times in which Isaac Bell must contend with a dangerous, greedy man, intent upon causing the destruction...

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      More Powerful Than a Locomotive

      By Thriftbooks.com User,

      As does the cover photo of an exploding locomotive atop a wooden railroad trestle, authors Clive Cussler and Justin Scott snatch the reader's attention from chapter one. Cussler arguably is best known for RAISE THE TITANIC! (the third in his series of Dirk Pitt novels), and he and co-author Scott (whose pseudonyms include Paul Garrison) specialize in transportation-themed novels, many of which are set at sea. This is the second...

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      Back on the tracks.

      By Thriftbooks.com User,

      The first posted review can be difficult to follow sometimes, but I think I'm safe here. All the salient plot points have already been covered for you so here are a few things I would like to add: Once you get past the fact that this novel, like the other previous ones, is not a Dirk Pitt adventure, you can open yourself up to enjoy it. We first met "Isaac" Bell in "The Chase" (11/07). He is a special agent that works for...

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