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Product Description:
For decades, Clive Cussler has been delighting readers with novels filled with suspense, action, and sheer audacity. Now he does it again, in one of the wildest, most entertaining historical thrillers in years.
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 that interest the people watching nearby. It is what is about to come next . . .
1906: For two years, the western states of America have been suffering an extraordinary crime spree: a string of bank robberies by a single man who cold- bloodedly murders any and all witnesses and then vanishes without a trace. Fed up by the depredations of the "Butcher Bandit," the U.S. government brings in the best man they can find-a tall, lean, no-nonsense detective named Isaac Bell, who has caught thieves and killers coast to coast.
But Bell has never had a challenge like this one. From Arizona to Colorado to the streets of San Francisco during its calamitous earthquake and fire, he pursues what is quickly becoming clear to him is the sharpest criminal mind he has ever encountered, and the woman who seems to hold the key to the bandit's identity. Using science, deduction, and intuition, Bell repeatedly draws near only to grasp at thin air, but at least he knows his pursuit is having an effect. Because his quarry is getting angry now, and has turned the chase back on him. The hunter has become the hunted. And soon it will take all of Isaac Bell's skills not merely to prevail . . . but to survive.
Filled with intricate plotting, dazzling signature set pieces, and not one but two extraordinary villains, this is the work of a master writing at the height of his powers.
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As in all of Clive Cussler's books, there is history, adventure and intrigue. Thoroughly enjoyable and difficult to put down.
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Hard to put this delicately. Clive Cussler sux. Talentless formulaic garbage with his own political bias.
I hesitate to call him the "Bill O'Reilly" of fiction because
a) he probably sees that as a complement
b) its hard to discern who is the fictional writer with that comparison.
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A great surprise - 
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I thoroughly enjoyed this. It was a little absurd at times, but otherwise light-hearted, fast-paced, and well-researched historical fiction. I hope that Cussler rights more in this genre.
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Well Done as usua;l - 
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I found the chase to be entertaining and typical Cussler from the ever present red head to Leigh Hunt and a cameo by cussler, Very fast paced and historicly close to factual,I've been reading Cussler for quite a few years, I still lean toward the Numa and Oregon files But would buy most any Cussler work, Although I haven't read any of his nonfiction works yet, I highly recomend The Chase a turn of the century Dirk Pitt without a boat
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Excellent read! - 
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I loved this book. Very different from other Clive Cussler books. Very entertaining and suspenseful. It was interesting enough that I was sad when I realized I was finished. I wanted to keep the ride going and going. Nice new characters.
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