The Chase, Clive Cussler
Condition: AS NEW
Publisher: BCA
Publication date: 2007
Format: Hardback
Pages: 404
ISBN: 0000001541878
Isaac Bell #1
From the cover:
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 dies forty-four years before. But it is neither the engine nor the 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 then cold-bloodedly murders any and all witnesses, and vanishes without a trace. Fed up by the depredations of 'The Butcher Bandit', the US government brings in the best man it can find - a tall, lean, no-nonsense detective named Isaac Bell who has caught thieves and killers form coast to coast.
But he 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 quickly becomes clear to him is the best criminal mind he has ever encountered, and the woman who seems to hold the key to the man's identity. Using science, deduction and intuition, he repeatedly draws near, only to grasp at empty 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 Bell's skills not merely to prevail. . . but to survive.
