The Wrecker is a novel by Clive Cussler.

Isaac Bell is back in this sequel to Clive Cussler

Clive Cussler

Clive Eric Cussler is an American adventure novelist and marine archaeologist. His thriller novels, many featuring the character Dirk Pitt, have reached The New York Times fiction best-seller list more than seventeen times...

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The Chase (Clive Cussler)

The Chase is a western novel by author Clive Cussler in November 2007.-Blurb:April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. Inside is all that remains of three men who died forty-four years before. But it is not the engine or its grisly contents...

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Most of the story takes place in 1907 in the United States of America. Osgood Hennessy, owner of the Southern Pacific Railway, has hired the Van Dorn Detective Agency to help catch a murdering saboteur nicknamed "The Wrecker," and Joseph "Joe" Van Dorn has appointed Isaac Bell, a well-known detective from a prosperous Boston

Boston

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

banking family, as Chief Investigator, to help catch the saboteur and cold-blooded murderer.