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The Gangster
Oct 8, 2024 2:30 PM

Author:Clive Cussler,Justin Scott

The Gangster

Join Private Detective Isaac Bell as he navigates the seedy back alleys of New York, in the ninth book in the action-packed series from Sunday Times bestseller Clive Cussler.

Crime, corruption and murder. . . a vicious organisation is terrorising the city and only one man can stop them.

The Black Hand Strikes

1906, New York City. Italian gangsters calling themselves the Black Hand terrorize citizens in a menacing spree of kidnapping, extortion and arson.

Who dares stop them?

Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special 'Black Hand Squad' - but with each gangster caught a new one appears on the street. Are these new recruits or other criminals imitating the Black Hand? Where are these men coming from?

Murder is just the beginning . . .

Then the killings start. Each victim is a man more powerful than the last. Bell is convinced that he's facing a murderous organization hell bent on bringing the city to its knees.

But that's before he discovers their ultimate target - the most powerful man in the country: the President of the United States . . .

'Cussler is hard to beat'

Daily Mail

'The Adventure King'

Sunday Express

'Nobody does it better... nobody!'

Stephen Coonts

'Just about the best storyteller in the business'

New York Post

Reviews

The ninth book in the action-packed series featuring Isaac Bell, from Sunday Times bestseller Clive Cussler
Crime, corruption and murder in the back alleys of New York . . . a vicious organisation is terrorising the city and only one man can stop them

—— from publisher's description

Cussler is hard to beat

—— Daily Mail

The guy I read

—— Tom Clancy

The Adventure King

—— Sunday Express

Nobody does it better... nobody!

—— Stephen Coonts

Just about the best storyteller in the business

—— New York Post

An outstanding thriller

—— Publishers Weekly

Among Thieves is fabulous, pure and simple

—— Book Reporter

Strong storytelling. Highly entertaining

—— salon.com

The Power is a fascinating look at what the world might be like if millennia of sexism went the other way...as a whole the narrative feels ingenious...deserves to be read by every woman (and, for that matter, every man)

—— The Times

A feminist science-fiction story that's about to make waves

—— Red

If you enjoy Margaret Atwood's dystopian fiction, this strong, substantial novel is for you

—— Woman & Home

Alderman is a fluent and powerful writer

—— Sunday Times

Thought-provoking novel

—— Glamour

When we say that The Power is profoundly disturbing and you may well want to argue with it as you read, we mean that in a good way

—— SFX, Five Stars

I loved it; it was visceral, provocative and curiously pertinent . . . The story has stayed with me since

—— Stylist, the decade's 15 best books by remarkable women

As awesome as it is compulsive

—— Heat, 5 stars

What starts out as a fantasy of female empowerment deepens and darkens into an interrogation of power itself, its uses and abuses and what it does to the people who have it

—— Guardian

A raw, gutsy slice of speculative dystopia

—— Metro

Like the best science fiction, this dystopian feminist fantasy holds up a mirror to the here and now

—— Mail on Sunday

A gripping read and a reminder of the true joy of a truly engaging story

—— Stylist

Frenetic sci-fi novel

—— Daily Mail

Naomi's super-charged, subversive novel....forcing you to rethink everything

—— Psychologies

One of my favourite books of 2016 - clever, harrowing and thought-provoking

—— Paula Hawkins, best-selling author of The Girl on the Train

Electrifying

—— Margaret Atwood

It's a feminist dystopian page-turner of a thriller and I'm IN LOVE with it

—— Marian Keyes

This year's Baileys winner is simultaneously a high-concept thought experiment and a rollercoaster, action packed read

—— Guardian

The Power by Naomi Alderman is the feminist flipside to The Handmaid's Tale, asking what happens when women are suddenly the stronger sex

—— Evening Standard

An enthrallingly told Cassandra-like prophecy from the ever-inventive Naomi Alderman

—— Observer

This book sparks with such electric satire that you should read it wearing insulated gloves

—— Washington Post

The Power is at once as streamlined as a 90-minute action film and as weirdly resonant as one of Atwood's own early fictions

—— Boston Globe

In this fierce and unsettling novel, the ability to generate a dangerous electrical force from their bodies lets women take control, resulting in a vast, systemic upheaval of gender dynamics across the globe

—— New York Times Books of the Year

It's a riveting story, told in fittingly electric language, that explores how power corrupts everyone: those new to it and those resisting its loss'

—— New York Times

Mina's insight into the wellsprings of violence is terrifyingly acute and her eye for period detail is unsurpassed. A bravura reimagining of 1950s Glasgow

—— Liam Mcllvanney , Big Issue

Mina’s recent novel The Long Drop…is her most interesting work

—— Neil Mackay , Herald

An atmospheric recreation of a vanished Glasgow…and a compelling exploration of the warped criminal mind. A Mina masterpiece

—— The Times, *Top Ten Crime Novels of the Decade*

One of the most exciting writers to have emerged in Britain for years.

—— Ian Rankin

One of the most fiercely intelligent of crime writers

—— Daily Telegraph
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