The Assassin

<p><b>The latest nerve-shredding adventure thriller in the popular Isaac Bell series from international bestseller Clive Cussler</b></p><p>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 refinery ablaze.</p><p>Bell summons his best detectives to scour the site of the crime for evidence. Who is the assassin and for whom did he kill? 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.</p><p><b>Praise for Clive Cussler:</b></p><p>Cussler is hard to beat - <i>Daily Mail</i><br><i></i>The guy I read - Tom Clancy<br>The Adventure King - <i>Sunday Express </i></p>