Isaac Bell, a no-nonsense private investigator with the Van Dorn Detective Agency, in early 20th century America. Isaac Bell is the main character in seven Clive Cussler branded books, The Chase (2007), The Wrecker (2009), The Spy (2010), The Race (2011), The Thief (2012), The Striker (2013), The Bootlegger (2014), and The Assassin (2015). The lean, blond haired man is an ace detective with the Van Dorn Detective agency.
Isaac Bell is the son of Ebenezer Bell and grandson of Isaiah Bell, two fictional prominent Boston bankers. He gets married to Marion Morgan in The Thief.
Bell usually operated in the early twentieth century. For example, most of the novel, The Wrecker is set in the fall of 1907.
Chronologically, The Striker (Book 6) takes place before the other books in the series.
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(…)
In The Chase, Clive Cussler introduced an electrifying new hero, the tall, lean, no-nonsense detective Isaac Bell, who, driven by his sense of justice, travels early-twentieth-century America pursuing thieves and killers . . . and sometimes criminals much worse It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions(…)
It is 1908, and international tensions are mounting as the world plunges towards war. When a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in an apparent suicide, the man’s grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father’s name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell(…)
Detective Isaac Bell returns, in the remarkable new adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. It is 1910, the age of flying machines is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than fifty days. He is even sponsoring one(…)
On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency’s intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again-and this time one of the scientists dies. What are they holding that is(…)