**Detective Isaac Bell returns in the extraordinary new adventure in the #1 *New York Times*bestselling series.** It is 1920, and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Isaac Bells boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed leading the high-speed chase
The Bootlegger
β Scribed by Cussler, Clive; Scott, Justin
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA 2014
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 540 KB
- Edition
- First Edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0399167293
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β¦ Synopsis
Detective Isaac Bell returns in the extraordinary new adventure in the #1 New York TimesΒbestselling series.
It is 1920, and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Isaac Bellβs boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed leading the high-speed chase of a rum-running vessel, Bell swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers, but he doesnβt know what he is getting into. When a witness to Van Dornβs shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner invented by the Russian secret police, it becomes clear that these are no ordinary criminals. Bell is up against a team of Bolshevik assassins and saboteursβand they are intent on overthrowing the government of the United States.
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