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"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, a brave and likable man. Then the shooter detonates a terrible explosion that sets the victim's independent...
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New York City, it is 1906, and the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a big spree: kidnapping, extortion, and arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form the 'Black Hand Squad,' but the gangsters appear to be everywhere; so much so that Bell begins to wonder if criminals are using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders begin, each one of a man more powerful than the last, and to Bell's dismay, the...
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Isaac Bell thrillers volume 2
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Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
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Berkley premium ed.
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Detective Isaac Bell, working for the Van Dorn Detective Agency in 1907, is sent to stop a man known only as the Wrecker, a criminal who traverses the American West, sabotaging railroads and causing death while building up to what Bell guesses will be a grandiose and devastating act.
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