The Assassin
Isaac Bell #8
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4.3 • 34 Ratings
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
A nerve-shredding adventure thriller in the popular Isaac Bell series from international bestseller Clive Cussler
KANSAS, 1905
On a new well out on the plains an assassin's bullet kills oilman Spike Hopewell. Minutes later an explosion rips apart his refinery.
Death and destruction - just another bad day at the well?
Except Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency witnessed everything. He's trailing a murderer who has been targeting anyone brave enough to stand against the powerful interests of Standard Oil.
It's a cat and mouse chase which leads Bell to Texas and New York in pursuit of the sharpest shooter in the land.
Yet there's more to this assassin than meets the eye.
And they're creeping closer to Bell with each passing day . . .
Praise for Clive Cussler:
Cussler is hard to beat - Daily Mail
The guy I read - Tom Clancy
The Adventure King - Sunday Express
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Isaac Bell locks horns with John D. Rockefeller in bestseller Cussler's uneven eighth adventure featuring the Van Dorn Agency detective (after 2014's The Bootlegger, also coauthored with Scott). In 1905, Rockefeller is buying up all the independent companies that stand in the way of Standard Oil's complete domination of the oil market, making sworn enemies out of many of the independents' owners, in particular revenge-driven Bill Matters. A fiendishly clever assassin, who's a superb sniper, has been killing the men who Matters has marked as his enemies. It's Bell's job to protect Rockefeller, help the U.S. government investigate Standard Oil for violating the Sherman Antitrust act, bring the mysterious assassin to justice, and keep himself alive in the process. An exciting trip to Russia and a whiz-bang ending compensate for the places where the action bogs down. A surprise epilogue set in 1940 will please series fans.
