The Chase | 
 enlarge | Author: Clive Cussler
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 416
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.5
ISBN: 0399154388
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780399154386
ASIN: 0399154388
Publication Date: November 6, 2007
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Product Description
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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 Well Done as usua;l November 15, 2008
I found the chase to be entertaining and typical Cussler from the ever present red head to Leigh Hunt and a cameo by cussler, Very fast paced and historicly close to factual,I've been reading Cussler for quite a few years, I still lean toward the Numa and Oregon files But would buy most any Cussler work, Although I haven't read any of his nonfiction works yet, I highly recomend The Chase a turn of the century Dirk Pitt without a boat
Excellent read! November 6, 2008
I loved this book. Very different from other Clive Cussler books. Very entertaining and suspenseful. It was interesting enough that I was sad when I realized I was finished. I wanted to keep the ride going and going. Nice new characters.
wild west robbery adventure November 3, 2008
This book starts with a train found in a lake in Montana, then backtracks to the story in 1906 to explain how it got there. Like so many Cussler stories, history is weaved into the adventure, including accounts of the San Francisco earthquake. Our hero, Isaac Bell has a touch of Dirk Pitt and James Bond in him (no surprise). The villains are delicious, and the romp across the American west is fun.
Enjoy!
A Great Action Adventure in 19th Century West September 22, 2008
Referring to the Audio Version:
Isaac Bell is the newest of the Clive Cussler heroes a tall, handsome, wealthy, educated, intelligent man charged by the Van Dorn Investigative Agency with the enviable task of hunting down the "Butcher Bandit".
A bank robber who uses stealth, disguises, and detail planning to pull off a series of bank robberies/murders across the west. Do not dismiss this book as another story of the old west, it's not, while it takes place in the west it is set in the early 20th Century.
The tale takes you from Denver to San Francisco and the Earthquake of 1906 and then north toward Canada. You have automobiles racing trains, ruthless bank robberies, pursuit of trains and love. The settings were perfect, the characters two dimensional, the descriptions vivid, a plot that draws you in and a perfect ending.
The narrator was good, setting the mood of the story; he handles the female roles with care. Most narrators try a little too hard to imitate a female voice that most times results in some very odd or strange and sometimes comedic female voices.
I dearly hope this won't be the only book featuring Isaac Bell.
Good read but factually erroneous September 12, 2008
Definitely a very entertaining read. However, the LV&T Railroad did not reach even the outskirts of Rhyolite, Nevada, until December of 1906. Further, trains on the LV&T did NOT go to San Francisco - they went South thru Las Vegas to Los Angeles.
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