Sledujte osudy Isaac Bell, rázného soukromého detektiva na počátku 20. století v Americe. Tato série vás vtáhne do světa plného záhad, zločinu a napětí, kde se každý případ stává bojem o spravedlnost. Prozkoumejte složité intriky a odhalte skrytá tajemství spolu s jedním z nejcharakterističtějších hrdinů detektivní literatury. Ponořte se do historického prostředí a prožijte napínavá dobrodružství plná zvratů.
Je duben 1950. Z hlubin jezera Montana se vynořuje zrezivělý trup parní lokomotivy. Uvnitř jsou k vidění pozůstatky tří mužů, kteří zemřeli před čtyřiačtyřiceti lety. Avšak přihlížející zástupy zvědavců nezajímal ani mohutný stroj, ani jeho hrůzný obsah.
Rok 1906. Západní státy Ameriky trpí již dva roky mimořádným rozkvětem zločinu. Došlo k celé šňůře bankovních loupeží, které byly spáchány jediným mužem. A seriózní detektiv Isaac Bell byl povolán k tomuto případu. Avšak Bell se dosud s takovou výzvou nesetkal.
V roce 1907, během finanční paniky a dělnických protestů, se rozvíjí železniční síť na západě. Osgood Hennessy, významný železniční magnát, usiluje o vybudování kratšího spojení přes Kaskádové pohoří, ale hrozí mu bankrot, pokud se mu projekt nepodaří dokončit do zimy. Situaci komplikuje sabotér přezdívaný Ničitel, který po celé zemi poškozuje Jižní pacifickou dráhu, zanechávající za sebou mrtvé a vykolejené vlaky. Hennessy se obrací na Van Dornovu detektivní agenturu, která pověřuje mladého a atraktivního detektiva Isaaka Bella, aby situaci vyřešil. Isaac se pohybuje jak v elitních kruzích, tak v nebezpečných oblastech poblíž nádraží. I když čtenář brzy odhalí identitu Ničitele, Isaacova cesta je plná nebezpečí, během níž se snaží zjistit, zda jde o anarchistu bojujícího proti kapitálu, nebo o osobu s vlastním zájmem. Atmosféra doby je detailně vykreslena a historické reálie vtahují čtenáře do příběhu, který je napínavý až do poslední stránky. Clive Cussler opět přináší čtenářům akční a napínavé dobrodružství plné intrik a souboje dvou protivníků.
Seznamte se s Isaacem Bellem. Nejlepší detektiv Ameriky v souboji s tajemným špionem ve zbrusu nové knize Clivea Cusslera. Mezinárodní napětí eskaluje a svět pomalu, ale jistě směřuje k první světové válce. Americký zbrojní průmysl utrpí obrovskou ztrátu, když jeden z nejlepších konstruktérů bitevních lodí spáchá sebevraždu. Nicméně sebevraždu provází řada podezřelých okolností a tak se do celé záležitosti vloží legendární detektivní agentura Van Dorn a její nejlepší detektiv Isaac Bell. Rozjíždí se tak řetězec událostí, které ukazují na širší spiknutí a Bell se ocitá v souboji s tajemným špionem, jenž je spojen s přísně tajným projektem Hull 44. V sázce není jen budoucnost Spojených států, ale bez nadsázky osud celého světa.
20th century detective Isaac Bell protects a promising aviator from her jealous husband in this remarkable adventure from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Clive Cussler. It is 1910, the age of flying machines is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than fifty days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates-an intrepid woman named Josephine Frost-and that's where Bell, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency, comes in. Frost's violent-tempered husband has just killed her lover and tried to kill her, and he is bound to make another attempt. Bell has tangled with Harry Frost before; he knows that the man has made his millions leading gangs of thieves, murderers, and thugs in every city across the country. He also knows Frost won’t be after just his wife, but after Whiteway as well. And if Bell takes the case . . . Frost will be after him, too.
An invention that could change the world… A ruthless agent that could destroy it… Only Isaac Bell can save it. On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a groundbreaking new invention are rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency’s intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky when one of the thugs attacks a second time. What are the scientists holding that is so precious? Something that will revolutionize business and world culture—and perhaps something more. For war clouds are looming, and a ruthless espionage agent has spotted an opportunity to give the German Empire an edge in the coming conflict. It’s up to Isaac Bell to figure out who he is, what he’s up to, and stop him. But Bell may already be too late.
When his boss is nearly killed while chasing a rum-running vessel at the height of the Prohibition era, Isaac Bell confronts a ruthless team of Bolshevik assassins and saboteurs intent on overthrowing the U.S. government.
Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell is investigating John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly, when a sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and it doesn't stop there. The murders--shootings, poisonings, staged accidents--have just begun as Bell tracks his phantom-like criminal adversary across the U.S., 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.
Turn-of-the-century Detective Isaac Bell takes on the upstart leader of a vicious crime organization in this novel in the #1 New York Times–bestselling series. It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. They like to take the oldest tricks and add dynamite. When a coalition of the Black Hand’s victims hire out the Van Dorn agency to protect their businesses, their reputations, and their families, Detective Isaac Bell forms a crack squad and begins scouring the city for clues. And then he spots a familiar face. The stakes grow ever-higher, with the Black Hand becoming more ambitious, and their targets more political. If Bell can’t determine the role played by the face from his past, the next life lost could be one of the most powerful men in the nation.
The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the killer to justice, he begins a manhunt which leads him into increasingly more alarming territory. Anna Pape was not alone in her fate - petite young blonde women like Anna are being murdered in cities across America. And the pattern goes beyond the physical resemblance of the victims - there are disturbing familiarities about the killings themselves that send a chill through even a man as experienced with evil as Bell. If he is right about his fears, then he is on the trail of one of the greatest monsters of his time.
*PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW* The Titanic's greatest secret is finally revealed . . . When Dirk Pitt raised the Titanic in search of a rare and valuable element he never learned the disturbing true story of its origins. But upon receiving secret testimony from private detective Isaac Bell he's taken back to the year 1911 and a tragedy at Colorado's Little Angel Mine. There, Isaac Bell is tasked with explaining the deaths of nine miners. But all is not as it seems and soon Bell finds himself on his way to Europe hunting for clues concerning a rare element of incalculable value - and pursued by dangerous men who'll do anything to get their hands on it. It's a journey that can only end with the fateful first and final voyage of the Titanic itself . . . Praise for Clive Cussler 'The Adventure King' - Sunday Express 'Cussler is hard to beat' - Daily Mail 'Just about the best in the business' - New York Post 'Oceanography's answer to Indiana Jones. Exotic locations, ruthless villains, and many narrow escapes - Cussler's fans come for swashbuckling and he delivers' - Associated Press 'Nobody does it better . . . nobody!' - Stephen Coonts
Detective Isaac Bell's investigation into an attempted assassination brings him to the construction site of the Panama Canal--and straight into a nest of vipers--in the latest adventure in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series from Clive Cussler. Detective Isaac Bell's wife has said that he is always in the wrong place at the right time. This is certainly the case when Bell thwarts the assassination of a U.S. Senator shortly after meeting the man. This heroic rescue is just the start of the mystery for Bell, who suspects that the would-be assassins have a much larger and more dangerous agenda--one involving the nearly constructed Panama Canal. While the senator supports the building of the canal, there are many, including a local Panamanian insurgency known as the Red Vipers, who never want to see its completion. With millions of dollars and the fates of two nations at stake, Bell heads to Panama to find answers. After a deadly bombing at the canal's construction site, he is determined to stop the insurgents--or whoever is funding them--before they can attack again.
