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In 1907, during a financial panic and widespread labor unrest, the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Cascades express line falls under a series of disastrous attacks by a clandestine saboteur known only as the Wrecker. Hiring the Van Dorn Detective Agency to counter the threat, Isaac Bell – the lean, no‑nonsense detective introduced in The Chase – uncovers that the Wrecker moves through the American West with terrifying speed, targeting trains, and killing his accomplices to protect his secret plans. Bell must unravel the Wrecker's motives and thwart a looming act of destruction that could jeopardize not just a railroad, but the country’s future.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Historical Mystery
Authors: Clive Cussler
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