Barbara L. reviewed on 10/19/2009 + 988 more book reviews

Cussler classic - In April 1950, the rusting hulk of a steam locomotive is raised from a Montana lake. Inside are the remains of three men who died forty-four years before. In 1906 rhe Butcher Bandit has been robbing banks and cold-bloodedly murdering any and all witnesses and vanishing without a trace. Fed upu with the crimes, the US Government brings in the best man they can find - a tall, lean, no-nonsense detective named Isaac Bell. From Arizona to Colorado to the streets of San Francisco during its calamitous earthquake and fire, Bell pursues the sharpest and deadliest criminal he has ever encountered using science, deduction and intuition. It will take all of Bell's skills to not merely prevail, but to survive.

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