Reviews"The Isaac Bell series continues to tell compelling stories. Tidbits of history are sprinkled throughout the narrative, and it's fun to filter out fictional characters and events from historical facts." --Associated Press "Cussler and Scott have written another wonderful page-turner. This is historical action-adventure fiction at its rip-roaring best!" -- Library Journal (starred review) "As always in this series, the novel is very exciting, with excellent pacing and some very well-drawn characters. Cussler is a perennial A-lister, popularity-wise, and his Isaac Bell novels are the pick of his prodigious litter." -- Booklist "The seventh page-turner featuring indomitable detective Isaac Bell--great fun from one of the better Cussler series." -- Kirkus Reviews
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number8
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisDetective 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.C., 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.