Clive Cussler's The Iron Storm

In summer 1914, a murder investigation leads Detective Isaac Bell to an explosive heist planned on the newly launched Federal Reserve System - a plot that will echo far into the future . . .<BR><BR>----<BR><BR>A MASTER THIEF<BR><BR>AN ASSASSIN ACCOMPLICE<BR><BR>THE MOST FIENDISH HEIST IN AMERICA'S HISTORY<BR><BR>Washington D.C., 1914: President Woodrow Wilson is celebrating aboard his yacht, Mayflower, with the branch leaders of the newly created Federal Reserve. For Van Dorn agent, Detective Isaac Bell, few events could be duller. Until he notices the aeroplane flying dangerously low . . .<BR><BR>Thwarting this aerial attack on the President and financial leaders, Bell soon learns that the strike was just the opening of an even deadlier gambit. It's up to Bell to find the link between the attack, the mysterious death of a Newport heiress, and growing evidence of an unimaginably audacious heist: to steal a billion dollars from the country's new and most secure banking system.<BR><BR>Double-cross and betrayal are Bell's stock and trade, but this time, the deeper he delves into the puzzle, the less he seems to understand. He is in a race against his most ruthless opponents yet, to prevent a financial panic that would bring the United States to its knees.<BR><BR>----<BR><BR>Praise for Clive Cussler:<BR><BR>'The Adventure King' Sunday Express<BR><BR>'Just about the best in the business' New York Post<BR><BR>'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

Can one detective stop a war being lost just as it starts?<BR><BR>August, 1914, the eve of WWI, and in New York the Van Dorn Detective Agency is supervising the loading of a final shipment of rifles bound for Britain. When Chief Investigator Isaac Bell discovers a hidden radio transmitter, he realises it will broadcast the exact location of the merchant ship to waiting German U-boats.<BR><BR>This ship is saved ­- but two others have already departed.<BR><BR>In a desperate race against time, Bell sets out to foil these acts of sabotage. Yet even if he succeeds, he knows he must hunt down the saboteur. Little does he realise that a sophisticated German spy ring is operating out of New York City's docks - and they've a secret that could determine the outcome of the war . . .<BR><BR>Praise for Clive Cussler:<BR><BR>'The Adventure King' Sunday Express<BR><BR>'Just about the best in the business' New York Post<BR><BR>'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

A CUNNING ESCAPE. A SHADOWY ANARCHIST PLOT. THE GREAT WAR ARRIVES ON AMERICAN SOIL . . .<BR>Isaac Bell returns for another thrilling mission, from the Grand Master of Adventure, Clive Cussler <BR><BR>-<BR>Washington DC, 1917. When the President sends Isaac Bell to Europe as a fact-finding observer, it seems a safer mission than most. <BR><BR>But when his plane is shot down behind enemy lines, Bell is captured and thrown into a medieval fortress.<BR><BR>Escaping with fellow prisoners will take every ounce of cunning - and the latest battlefield technology. <BR><BR>Yet freedom reveals an even greater danger: a secret anarchist plot to unleash the horrors of war on American soil.<BR><BR>Now Bell must race across the Atlantic to stop a ruthless enemy before the fight reaches home.<BR><BR>--<BR><BR>Praise for Clive Cussler:<BR><BR>'The Adventure King' Sunday Express<BR><BR>'Just about the best in the business' New York Post<BR><BR>'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

In summer 1914, a murder investigation leads Detective Isaac Bell to an explosive heist planned on the newly launched Federal Reserve System - a plot that will echo far into the future . . .<BR><BR>----<BR><BR>A MASTER THIEF<BR><BR>AN ASSASSIN ACCOMPLICE<BR><BR>THE MOST FIENDISH HEIST IN AMERICA'S HISTORY<BR><BR>Washington D.C., 1914: President Woodrow Wilson is celebrating aboard his yacht, Mayflower, with the branch leaders of the newly created Federal Reserve. For Van Dorn agent, Detective Isaac Bell, few events could be duller. Until he notices the aeroplane flying dangerously low . . .<BR><BR>Thwarting this aerial attack on the President and financial leaders, Bell soon learns that the strike was just the opening of an even deadlier gambit. It's up to Bell to find the link between the attack, the mysterious death of a Newport heiress, and growing evidence of an unimaginably audacious heist: to steal a billion dollars from the country's new and most secure banking system.<BR><BR>Double-cross and betrayal are Bell's stock and trade, but this time, the deeper he delves into the puzzle, the less he seems to understand. He is in a race against his most ruthless opponents yet, to prevent a financial panic that would bring the United States to its knees.<BR><BR>----<BR><BR>Praise for Clive Cussler:<BR><BR>'The Adventure King' Sunday Express<BR><BR>'Just about the best in the business' New York Post<BR><BR>'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail