Isaac Bell is back in this thrilling new novel from the number-one New York Times best-selling grand master of adventure, Clive Cussler.
It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special Black Hand Squad, but the gangsters appear to be everywhere – so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders begin, each one of a man more powerful than the last, and, as Bell discovers to his dismay, the ultimate target may be the most powerful man of all.
Better than Pitt for me…. I have never been a Clive Cussler fan, probably because I read a few novels featuring Dirk Pitt and could never get into the behemoth road-graders, submarines, tanks or other such piece of equipment that seemed to permeate his adventures.Â
CUSSLER’S MACHINE JUST KEEPS ROLLING ON DOWN THE ROAD …. After the Sam & Remi Fargo interlude, Clive Cussler is now back with his ninth installment in the successful “Isaac Bell” series. His collaboration with Justin Scott turns out to be a good thing in-as-much-as it brings some new fresh and needed perspective to last centuries early, infamous criminal activity. Cussler always delivers and this book is no exception. I believe his regular fans (like myself) will be well pleased with this most recent edition.
Saturday matinee fun Think of “The Gangster” by Clive Cussler as a Saturday matinee. There is the hero, detective Isaac Bell, handsome, brave, stalwart, slow to anger but quick with his hands, and a bane to evil. There is the villain, the gangster of the title, an Italian of the Black Hand gang in New York circa the 1900’s, whose goal is to unite the mainly local gangs into a national crime syndicate. And then there is the crime, “the big score” that will suceed in multiple goals: cement the…