Author:Clive Cussler,Justin Scott
The Spy is the third of Clive Cussler's brilliant historical thrillers.
1908, and American engineering geniuses are being killed off one by one . . .
When a brilliant battleship gun engineer commits suicide, his disbelieving family turn to legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency. Quickly on the case, Isaac Bell establishes that the clues point not to suicide, but murder.
So when further deaths connected to a top-secret project follow, Bell realizes that this is sabotage. With the world plunging towards war, it's clearly a spy at large. But which of the many foreign agents he has encountered is responsible? Or is there a more sinister explanation?
In a blistering story featuring dreadnaught battleships and railroards, criminal gangs and beautiful women, The Spy is a breathtaking thriller that just happens to have at stake the fate of the world.
Bestseller Clive Cussler - author of the Dirk Pitt novels Arctic Drift and Crescent Dawn - and co-author Justin Scott place hero Isaac Bell at the centre of a mysterious espionage conspiracy in the third novel of historical thriller series The Isaac Bell Adventures, The Spy.
Praise for Clive Cussler:
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail
'The guy I read' Tom Clancy
Topolski adroitly probes the murkiest crannies of the human soul, while ratcheting up the tension. A tautly strung very dark tale
—— Time OutA chilling portrait of madness and evil
—— Daily ExpressMankell is in the first division of crime writing
—— The TimesAn excellent thriller
—— IndependentBy far the best writer of police mysteries today
—— Michael OndaatjeThe novels become a compulsion - one reads them all
—— Daily TelegraphThe most original crime writer of our time
—— SpectatorJames Ellroy is a genius: the finest American crime writer since Raymond Chandler, and one of the most readable experimental writers in the world
—— Times Literary SupplementWithout him and his crime fiction, there's no David Peace or The Sopranos or Ian Rankin or The Wire or the work of countless writers and film makers who saw a different way of doing things when they first cracked the spine on an Ellroy
—— GQBurnside is an accomplished and careful writer. And this is a beautiful book, compelling and strange
—— Margaret Reynolds , The TimesUnsettling, hauntingly memorable tale
—— Sunday TimesWritten with deceptive elegance, riddled with gaps and non sequiturs and a clever travesty of several genres, this is a disturbing, provocative book'
—— Guardian
[A Summer of Drowning] brings an eerie glow to the colours and sounds, flora and foodstuffs of the far north