The Race

<b>1910, and America's first ever cross-country flying race has been sabotaged . . .</b><b><br></b><b><br></b>Newspaper magnate Preston Whiteway is offering a big prize for the first aviator to cross America in under fifty days. He wants Josephine Frost - the country's leading as well as most glamorous pilot - to win. Which is why he's hired Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency.<br> <br> Josephine saw her husband Harry Frost kill a man. Now he wants her dead. And with underworld contacts ready to help in every city en route, he'll do anything, go after anyone who gets in his way - including Whiteway and Bell.<br> <br> Packed with brilliant twists and turns, <i>The Race</i> sees the intrepid Private Investigator locked in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a killer whose resources are only matched by his willingness to cause mayhem during the race of a life time . . .<br> <br> <b>Clive Cussler</b> is the author or co-author of a great number of international bestsellers, including the famous Dirk Pitt adventures, such as <i>Crescent Dawn</i>; the NUMA Files adventures, the <i>Oregon</i> Files, such as <i>The Jungle</i>; and the Isaac Bell historical thrillers, which began with <i>The Chase</i>. He lives in Arizona. www.clivecussler.co.uk<br> <br> <b>Justin Scott's</b> twenty six novels include <i>The Shipkiller</i> and <i>Normandie Triangle</i>; the Ben Abbot detective series; and five modern sea thrillers published under his pen name Paul Garrison. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, the filmmaker Amber Edwards.