The Wrecker

Clive Cussler, Justin Scott

eBook - 2009

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 v...ast 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...

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Published
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Authors
Clive Cussler, Justin Scott
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
Format
Adobe EPUB eBook, OverDrive Read eBook
Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size2 GB
ISBN9781101151488
Release Date11/17/2009
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781101151488
Release Date11/17/2009