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Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home, Chief Investigator Isaac Bell is shocked to find instead her murdered body. Similar cases are turning up around the country, the victims all petite young blonde women like Anna, with disturbing familarities about the killings themselves. If he is right about this, Bell is on the trail of one of the greatest monsters of his time.

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Isaac Bell may be on the hunt for the greatest monster of all time in the newest action-adventure novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author Clive Cussler.

The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this.

Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the killer to justice, he begins a manhunt that leads him into increasingly more alarming territory. Anna was not alone in her fate--petite young blond women like Anna are being murdered in cities across America.

And the patterns go beyond the physical resemblance of the victims--there are disturbing familiarities about the killings themselves that send a chill even through a man as experienced with evil as Bell. If he is right about his fears, then he is on the trail of one of the greatest monsters of his time.

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Praise for the Isaac Bell Novels

"Cussler and Scott have written another wonderful page-turner. This is historical action-adventure fiction at its rip-roaring best!"-Library Journal (starred review)

"As always in this series, the novel is very exciting, with excellent pacing and some very well-drawn characters. Cussler is a perennial A-lister, popularity-wise, and his Isaac Bell novels are the pick of his prodigious litter."-Booklist

"The Isaac Bell series is a fun jaunt into America´s past and the books are a wonderful examination of life in the early twentieth century."-Associated Press

"The Assassin is...action-movie-paced entertainment." -Kirkus Reviews

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Clive Cussler is the author or coauthor of more than 50 previous books in five best-selling series, including Dirk Pitt, NUMA Files, Oregon Files, Isaac Bell, and Sam and Remi Fargo. His nonfiction works include Built for Adventure: The Classic Automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt, plus The Sea Hunters and The Sea Hunters II. They 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 has discovered more than 60 ships, including the long lost Confederate ship Hunley. He lives in Arizona.

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