The wrecker
(Book)
Author:
Contributors:
Scott, Justin, author.
NoveList Series:
Isaac Bell thrillers volume 2.
Published:
New York: Berkley Books, 2010.
Format:
Book
Edition:
Berkley premium edition.
Physical Desc:
562 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Status:
Description
Detective Isaac Bell travels the early-twentieth-century American railways, driven by a sense of justice and a determination to stop a new mastermind reigning terror on a crucial express line in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
A year of financial panic and labor unrest, 1907 sees train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Cascades express line. Desperate for help the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency. Van Dorn’s best man, Isaac Bell, quickly discovers a mysterious saboteur haunting the hobo jungles of the West. Known only as the Wrecker, he recruits vulnerable accomplices from the down-and-out to attack the railroad, and then kills them afterward. The Wrecker traverses the vast spaces of the American West as if he had wings, striking wherever he pleases, causing untold damage and loss of human life. Who is he? What does he want? Is he a striker? An anarchist? A revolutionary determined to displace the “privileged few”? A criminal mastermind engineering some as yet unexplained scheme?
Whoever he is, whatever his motives, the Wrecker knows how to create maximum havoc, and Bell senses that he is far from done—that, in fact, the Wrecker is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. If Bell doesn’t stop him in time, more than a railroad could be at risk—it could be the future of the entire country.
A year of financial panic and labor unrest, 1907 sees train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Cascades express line. Desperate for help the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency. Van Dorn’s best man, Isaac Bell, quickly discovers a mysterious saboteur haunting the hobo jungles of the West. Known only as the Wrecker, he recruits vulnerable accomplices from the down-and-out to attack the railroad, and then kills them afterward. The Wrecker traverses the vast spaces of the American West as if he had wings, striking wherever he pleases, causing untold damage and loss of human life. Who is he? What does he want? Is he a striker? An anarchist? A revolutionary determined to displace the “privileged few”? A criminal mastermind engineering some as yet unexplained scheme?
Whoever he is, whatever his motives, the Wrecker knows how to create maximum havoc, and Bell senses that he is far from done—that, in fact, the Wrecker is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. If Bell doesn’t stop him in time, more than a railroad could be at risk—it could be the future of the entire country.
Copies
Location
Call Number
Status
Lac Du Flambeau Adult Fiction Paperback
PB W. FIC CUS
Available
More Details
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780425237700, 0425237702
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 6, 20 Points
Level 6, 20 Points
Notes
General Note
Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2009.
Description
Investigating a series of attacks on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express lines, Detective Bell learns of the existence of an elusive saboteur who recruits and murders his own accomplices while engineering schemes of maximum havoc.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Cussler, C., & Scott, J. (2010). The wrecker. Berkley premium edition. New York, Berkley Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Cussler, Clive and Justin, Scott. 2010. The Wrecker. New York, Berkley Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Cussler, Clive and Justin, Scott, The Wrecker. New York, Berkley Books, 2010.
MLA Citation (style guide)Cussler, Clive, and Justin Scott. The Wrecker. Berkley premium edition. New York, Berkley Books, 2010.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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