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The Chase

By Clive Cussler

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| Hardcover | 9780399154386

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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 MontaContinue

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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  • Bookreporter.com - THE CHASE by Clive Cussler

    Without question, the best thing about any novel by Clive Cussler is that the reader is hooked by the end of the first chapter. Another given is that you will be introduced to many forms of transportation, most of them unique, historic and classic. T ... (read full critics)

    bookreporter published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010

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  • This book is probably worthy of a higher rating, but it just wasn't for me. (I picked it up based on a recommendation.) I did finish it, and there were moments that I enjoyed, but overall, it took a little effort to get through. Most of the book takes place in 1906, and revolves around a heartles ... (continue)

    This book is probably worthy of a higher rating, but it just wasn't for me. (I picked it up based on a recommendation.) I did finish it, and there were moments that I enjoyed, but overall, it took a little effort to get through. Most of the book takes place in 1906, and revolves around a heartless criminal who robs banks and never leaves any survivors to identify him. As you would imagine from the title, there is a reasonably exciting chase, but overall, the book was lacking in mystery and suspense, and it focused too much on the bad guy, and not enough on the good guy, for my taste. It was mildly interesting, but it just didn't draw me in like a good fiction should.

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