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    The Wrecker

    Written by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott

    Narrated by Scott Brick

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    About this audiobook

    In The Chase, Clive Cussler introduced an electrifying new hero, the tall, lean, no-nonsense detective Isaac Bell, who, driven by his sense of justice, travels early-twentieth-century America pursuing thieves and killers . . . and sometimes criminals much worse.

    It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad?s Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency. Van Dorn sends in his best man, and Bell quickly discovers that a mysterious saboteur haunts the hobo jungles of the West, a man known as the Wrecker, who recruits 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.

    Filled with intricate plotting and dazzling set pieces, The Wrecker is one of the most entertaining thrillers in years.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateNov 17, 2009
    ISBN9781101154137
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    The Wrecker
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    Clive Cussler

    Clive Cussler (1931–2020) was the author or coauthor of over eighty books in five bestselling series, including DIRK PITT®, THE NUMA FILES®, THE OREGON FILES ®, AN ISAAC BELL ADVENTURE ®, A SAM AND REMI FARGO ADVENTURE ®, and A KURT AUSTIN ADVENTURE ®. His nonfiction works include Built for Adventure: The Classic Automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt, Built to Thrill: More Classic Automobiles from Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt, The Sea Hunters, and The Sea Hunters II; these describe the true adventures of the real NUMA, which, led by Cussler, searches for lost ships of historic significance. With his crew of volunteers, Cussler discovered more than sixty ships, including the long-lost Civil War submarine Hunley. 

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    • 3/5
      he story line is smart with plenty of action and suspense for all Cussler fans. Bell is further developed as the old fashioned hero, chivalrous, fearless, with a passion for detail (aka Sherlock Holmes). His relationship with his fiance, Marion Morgan, is a delight to read, they being besotted in their affection for each other. I don't like this series as well as all the others but it is an okay read.
    • 4/5
      Mr. Cussler's detective takes you on a wild ride trying to catch a man who is sabotaging a railroad that is building in the upper northwest in the 1800s while at the same time trying to not get killed in the process. Very entertaining!
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this book a lot, as I have most Clive Cussler books I have read. I should read a lot more from him. A couple things irritated me. One: dates. It seemed a lot of days go by as people travel from one end of the country to another and also plan/scheme/try to figure out what is going on. However, when an actual date is given, it seems like it is too close to the previous date given. Two: the identity of the wrecker. It seemed to be revealed, but the way the book was written didn't change. Three: The wrecker was a super smart villain, who had everything planned. However, the book felt like a series of unrelated action scenes (very well done.) i wished it was more tightly written. Still a nice book.
    • 5/5
      Another classic from Cussler. The Second book in his new Bell series takes off where the first began - with high speed action in the age of the Iron Horse. Bookended with pro- and epi- logues set two decades after the action, the story grabs on and never lets go. A must read for fans and novices alike.
    • 4/5
      Famous Van Doran Detective Isaac Bell hunts down an elusive madman set on destroying a railroad empire so he can pick up the pieces and control all railroading in America.This is an entertaining read, filled with nonstop mayhem and action that I truly enjoyed. However, it seemed overly long and the climax was way too made-for-tv. Isaac Bell confronts the Wrecker, gets impaled by him even though he knows the Wrecker kills his victims with a telescoping sword, then goes on to pull bolts and spikes to unseat a rail and foil the Wrecker's plans to destroy a bridge while he's bleeding out. The Wrecker goes over the side with the train, falls hundreds of feet into freezing, raging waters and still survives to terrorize another day. Just way too overdone, but the getting there is a great ride.
    • 4/5
      Very good book continuing on the Isaac Bell series in a different era of the railroads... Isaac never gives up.... the picture on the cover is not a true representation of what happened in the book...
    • 3/5
      As with most of Cussler's books, this is not great literature but it is fast-moving and keeps the reader's interest - a 'page turner'. Set in the early 1900s (with a little leap ahead to the '30s) it features detective Isaac Bell, first introduced in 'The Chase', hunting a 'wrecker' who is determined to damage the railroad.The railway material is generally good, although there are times when it doesn't feel quite right. He does claim that a US 4-4-2 was clocked at 127.1 mph, which conflicts with the reality that the world speed record for a steam locomotive was set at 126 mph by a British Pacific 30 years later.As with his previous railway-themed book, this one too could have benefited from better proof-reading. Apart from obvious typos, at one point an Uncle Bill changes miraculously to Uncle Bob.But nevertheless, worth reading, and sympathetic to the railways.
    • 4/5
      Famous Van Doran Detective Isaac Bell hunts down an elusive madman set on destroying a railroad empire so he can pick up the pieces and control all railroading in America.This is an entertaining read, filled with nonstop mayhem and action that I truly enjoyed. However, it seemed overly long and the climax was way too made-for-tv. Isaac Bell confronts the Wrecker, gets impaled by him even though he knows the Wrecker kills his victims with a telescoping sword, then goes on to pull bolts and spikes to unseat a rail and foil the Wrecker's plans to destroy a bridge while he's bleeding out. The Wrecker goes over the side with the train, falls hundreds of feet into freezing, raging waters and still survives to terrorize another day. Just way too overdone, but the getting there is a great ride.
    • 4/5
      I give this three and a half. The opening runs a little slow, and at times it can be pretty predictable, but I think this change of era is doing good for Cussler.
    • 3/5
      It didn't hold my attention as well as I thought it would. Maybe it was all the talk about trains. I thought it would be more interesting, considering it is about a murderer nick-named the wrecker.I found myself skipping ahead a lot.My copy is paperback, still very long.
    • 4/5
      The Wrecker is the second book in the Isaac Bell series and I would say my favorite of the three. In this one Bell is tasked to find and stop the man/men responsible for sabotaging the Southern Pacific Railroad. The man responsible has been nick-named The Wrecker. His attacks are never the same twice, one time he collapses a tunnel, the next he derails a train and a 3rd gives 2 trains the go ahead to use the same track from opposite directions. Bell and the entire van Dorn detective agency is racing to stop the next attack, preferably by arresting the murderer himself.Overall, this was a pretty good story and fast paced as well. Isaac Bell is kind of like Alex Cross of the early 1900s. I enjoy listening to these on my commute to work. The have plenty of action and there is always another twist or turn in the plot to keep things interesting. Enjoyable books.
    • 3/5
      I didn't like this Isaac Bell book as much as the first one. I thought the author spent too much time explaining the history of the railroad then on the story about the wrecker.
    • 4/5
      enjoyed and looking forward to next in series
    • 3/5
      As with most of Cussler's books, this is not great literature but it is fast-moving and keeps the reader's interest - a 'page turner'. Set in the early 1900s (with a little leap ahead to the '30s) it features detective Isaac Bell, first introduced in 'The Chase', hunting a 'wrecker' who is determined to damage the railroad.The railway material is generally good, although there are times when it doesn't feel quite right. He does claim that a US 4-4-2 was clocked at 127.1 mph, which conflicts with the reality that the world speed record for a steam locomotive was set at 126 mph by a British Pacific 30 years later.As with his previous railway-themed book, this one too could have benefited from better proof-reading. Apart from obvious typos, at one point an Uncle Bill changes miraculously to Uncle Bob.But nevertheless, worth reading, and sympathetic to the railways.