Author(s): Justin Scott

Fiction - General

Clive Cussler's "The Race" is the international bestselling author's follow up to "The Spy" and "The Wrecker", the first two novels in the Isaac Bell series. "The Race" is a nerve-shredding historical thriller, set at the dawn of flight. 1910, and America's first ever cross-country flying race has been sabotaged...Newspaper magnate Preston Whiteway is offering a big prize for the first aviator to cross America in under fifty days. He wants Josephine Frost - the country's leading as well as most glamorous pilot - to win. Which is why he's hired Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency. Josephine saw her husband Harry Frost kill a man. Now he wants her dead. And with underworld contacts ready to help in every city en route, he'll do anything, go after anyone who gets in his way - including Whiteway and Bell. Packed with brilliant twists and turns, "The Race" sees the intrepid Private Investigator locked in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a killer whose resources are matched only by his willingness to cause mayhem during the race of a lifetime...Praise for Clive Cussler: "Frightening and full of suspense ...unquestionably entertaining". ("Daily Express").
"All-action, narrow escapes and the kind of unrelenting plot tension that has won Cussler hundreds of millions of fans worldwide". ("Observer"). Clive Cussler is the author or co-author of a great number of international bestsellers, including the famous "Dirk Pitt [registered]" adventures, such as "Crescent Dawn"; "The NUMA [registered] Files" adventures, "The Oregon Files", such as "The Jungle"; and the Isaac Bell historical thrillers, which began with "The Chase". He lives in Arizona. Justin Scott's twenty six novels include "The Shipkiller and Normandie Triangle"; the Ben Abbot detective series; and five modern sea thrillers published under his pen name Paul Garrison. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, the filmmaker Amber Edwards.