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The Gangster

The Gangster

Isaac Bell #9

Summary

Join Private Detective Isaac Bell as he navigates the seedy back alleys of New York, in the ninth book in the action-packed series from Sunday Times bestseller Clive Cussler.

Crime, corruption and murder. . . a vicious organisation is terrorising the city and only one man can stop them.


THE PERPETRATORS

It is 1906 and in New York City the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a menacing spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson.

THE INVESTIGATOR

Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special "Black Hand Squad," but the gangsters appear to be everywhere. So much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitator mobs emerging, other criminals using the Black Hand name to further terrorise the city.

WHERE WILL IT LEAD?

But then the murders begin, each one of a man more powerful than the last. Bell knows that copycat or not he's facing a lethal organisation, and to his dismay their ultimate target may be the most powerful man of all.

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'Cussler is hard to beat'
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'The Adventure King'
Sunday Express

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Stephen Coonts

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Reviews

  • The ninth book in the action-packed series featuring Isaac Bell, from Sunday Times bestseller Clive Cussler
    Crime, corruption and murder in the back alleys of New York . . . a vicious organisation is terrorising the city and only one man can stop them
    from publisher's description

About the authors

Clive Cussler

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Justin Scott

Justin Scott is the author of twenty-six novels, including The Shipkiller and Normandie Triangle, the Ben Abbot detective series, and five modern sea thrillers under his pen name Paul Garrison. He currently co-writes the Isaac Bell series with Clive Cussler. He lives in Connecticut.
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