Contributor(s):Author: Clive Cussler Author: Justin Scott Detective Isaac Bell tracks a killer across the nation's oilfields in this adventure in the #1 New York Times-bestselling historical series.
As Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D.
Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly, the case takes a deadly turn.
A sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and soon the assassin--shooting with extraordinary accuracy at seemingly impossible long range--kills Bell's best witness.
Then the shooter detonates a terrible explosion that sets the victim's independent refinery ablaze.
Bell summons his best detectives to hunt down the mysterious killer.
But the murders--shootings, poisonings, staged accidents--have just begun as Bell tracks his phantom-like criminal adversary from the oil fever regions of Kansas and Texas to Washington, D.
, to the tycoons' enclave of New York, to Russia's 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.
| Contributor(s) | Authorclive |
|---|---|
| Author | Justin |
