The Wrecker - Hardcover

Cussler, Clive; Scott, Justin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399155996 ISBN 13: 9780399155994

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 2009

Synopsis

Investigating a series of attacks on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express lines, Detective Bell learns of the existence of an elusive saboteur who recruits and murders his own accomplices while engineering schemes of maximum havoc. 250,000 first printing.

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Product Description:

470 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. It Is1907, A Year Of Unrest, Train Wrecks, Fires And Explosions Sabotage The Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades Express Line.

From the Back Cover:

1907: train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's new express line . . .

The desperate railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency, who send their best man, Isaac Bell. He quickly discovers that a saboteur calling himself the Wrecker is attacking the Southern Pacific with accomplices recruited from down-and-outs - who are killed afterward. The Wrecker strikes wherever he pleases, causing untold damage and loss of human life. Who is he? What does he want? Is he an anarchist? A revolutionary? A criminal mastermind?

Whoever he is, whatever his motives, the Wrecker knows how to create havoc. And Bell is convinced he is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before.

If the Wrecker isn't stopped in time, more than a railroad is at risk - the future of the entire country is on the line . . .

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About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0399155996
• ISBN 13: 9780399155994
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 470