The Assassin

by Justin Scott and Clive Cussler

Book Overview

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.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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399171754
• ISBN13: 9780399171758
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher