The Spy Cussler, Clive/ Scott, Justin

Detective Isaac Bell hero of The Chase and The Wrecker returns in a mission that pits him against German Japanese and British spies with the fate of the world at stake.

It''s 1908 and international tensions are mounting as the world plunges toward war. When a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide the man''s grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father''s name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide but to murder.

From the Publisher:
Investigating a disputed ruling that a brilliant pre-World War I battleship gun designer committed suicide, chief investigator Isaac Bell discovers that an elusive spy with ties to a top-secret project has been staging the killings of America's leading technological minds.

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The historic adventures of best-selling author Clive Cussler's number one detective hero, Isaac Bell--last heard from in THE WRECKER--continue in THE SPY. As the United States teeters on the brink of entering the war that will come to be known as World War I, Isaac Bell investigates a murder--set up to look like a suicide--with conspiratorial implications. The death of a brilliant American weapon designer is only the first violent step taken by someone who wants to sabotage the U.S.'s military power: This is the work of an elusive spy. And where there is one spy, there usually are more....The historic adventures of best-selling author Clive Cussler's number one detective hero, Isaac Bell--last heard from in THE WRECKER--continue in THE SPY. As the United States teeters on the brink of entering the war that will come to be known as World War I, Isaac Bell investigates a murder--set up to look like a suicide--with conspiratorial implications. The death of a brilliant American weapon designer is only the first violent step taken by someone who wants to sabotage the U.S.'s military power: This is the work of an elusive spy. And where there is one spy, there usually are more....The historic adventures of best-selling author Clive Cussler's number one detective hero, Isaac Bell--last heard from in THE WRECKER--continue in THE SPY. As the United States teeters on the brink of entering the war that will come to be known as World War I, Isaac Bell investigates a murder--set up to look like a suicide--with conspiratorial implications. The death of a brilliant American weapon designer is only the first violent step taken by someone who wants to sabotage the U.S.'s military power: This is the work of an elusive spy. And where there is one spy, there usually are more....

Author Bio

Clive Cussler

Born in Aurora, Illinois, Cussler grew up mainly in California where he attended Pasadena City College before joining the Air Force during the Korean War. Serving as an aircraft mechanic and flight engineer, Cussler eventually left the service to work in advertising as a copywriter, moving on to become creative director of some of the country's most prestigious agencies. Cussler didn't begin writing novels until he was 34, and it wasn't until eight years later in 1973 that he published a novel featuring Dirk Pitt, the hero he is most famous for creating. Since then, Cussler has gone on to write a long list of best-selling adventure novels, which have been translated into 40 languages and have been sold in over 135 countries. He has served as chairman of the National Underwater & Marine Agency, and as a fellow in the Explorers Club of New York, the Royal Geographic Society in London, and the American Society of Oceanographers. Cussler is married to Barbara Knight, with whom he has had three children. He spends much of his time on his favorite hobby, tending to his sizable collection of rare and classic cars.

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