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Isaac Bell

Volg de avonturen van Isaac Bell, een scherpe privédetective in het Amerika van het begin van de 20e eeuw. Deze serie dompelt lezers onder in een wereld van intrigerende mysteries, uitdagende misdaden en toenemende spanning, waar rechtvaardigheid met moeite wordt behaald. Elke aflevering presenteert complexe plots en verborgen geheimen die Bell moet ontrafelen met zijn scherpe verstand. Beleef spannende onderzoeken tegen een rijk gedetailleerde historische achtergrond.

De provocateur
The Thief
The Race
The Spy
The Wrecker
De Jacht

Aanbevolen leesvolgorde

  1. De Jacht

    • 383bladzijden
    • 14 uur lezen

    De start van een nieuwe avonturenreeks Al tientallen jaren genieten miljoenen lezers van de boeken van bestsellerauteur Clive Cussler. Maak nu kennis met detective Isaac Bell in Cusslers overrompelende thrillerreeks. 1950. Het verroeste gevaarte van een stoomlocomotief rijst op uit de diepte van een meer in Montana. In de locomotief bevinden zich de resten van drie mannen die vierenveertig jaar geleden zijn gestorven. 1906. Al twee jaar worden de westelijke staten van Amerika geteisterd door een misdaadgolf: een reeks bankroven, gepleegd door een man die koelbloedig alle getuigen vermoordt en daarna spoorloos verdwijnt. De Amerikaanse regering schakelt de hulp in van Isaac Bell, een lange, magere detective met een geduchte reputatie. Bell zet de jacht in " van Arizona via Colorado naar San Francisco " op de sluwe misdadiger en op de vrouw die de sleutel in handen heeft van de identiteit van de bandiet

    De Jacht1
    4,0
  2. 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.

    The Wrecker2
    4,0
  3. The Spy

    • 436bladzijden
    • 16 uur lezen

    Detective Isaac Bell, hero of The Chase and The Wrecker, returns in the remarkable new adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. It is 1908, and international tensions are mounting as the world plunges toward war. When a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide, the man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide but to murder. And when more suspicious deaths follow, it becomes clear that someone-an elusive spy-is orchestrating the destruction of America's brightest technological minds... and the murders all connect to a top- secret project called Hull 44. But that is just the beginning. As the intrigue deepens, Bell will find himself pitted against German, Japanese, and British spies, in a mission that encompasses dreadnought battleships, Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet, Chinatown, Hell's Kitchen, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Isaac Bell has certainly faced perilous situations before, but this time it is more than the future of his country that's at stake- it's the fate of the world.

    The Spy3
    4,0
  4. 20th century detective Isaac Bell protects a promising aviator from her jealous husband in this remarkable adventure from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Clive Cussler. It is 1910, the age of flying machines is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than fifty days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates-an intrepid woman named Josephine Frost-and that's where Bell, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency, comes in. Frost's violent-tempered husband has just killed her lover and tried to kill her, and he is bound to make another attempt. Bell has tangled with Harry Frost before; he knows that the man has made his millions leading gangs of thieves, murderers, and thugs in every city across the country. He also knows Frost won’t be after just his wife, but after Whiteway as well. And if Bell takes the case . . . Frost will be after him, too.

    The Race4
    3,8
  5. An invention that could change the world… A ruthless agent that could destroy it… Only Isaac Bell can save it. On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a groundbreaking new invention are rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency’s intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky when one of the thugs attacks a second time. What are the scientists holding that is so precious? Something that will revolutionize business and world culture—and perhaps something more. For war clouds are looming, and a ruthless espionage agent has spotted an opportunity to give the German Empire an edge in the coming conflict. It’s up to Isaac Bell to figure out who he is, what he’s up to, and stop him. But Bell may already be too late.

    The Thief5
    3,9
  6. De provocateur

    • 383bladzijden
    • 14 uur lezen

    In dit zesde deel van de spectaculaire Isaac Bell-serie wordt de onverschrokken privédetective naar West Virginia gestuurd om undercover als mijnwerker te achterhalen wie achter het complot tegen het mijnbedrijf Gleason Consolidated Coal & Coke Company zit. Als er in zijn bijzijn en dat van honderden andere mensen een goederentrein vol met kolen ontspoort en er tientallen doden vallen, wordt de druk om de dader in de kraag te vatten voor Isaac Bell alleen maar groter.

    De provocateur6
    4,0
  7. The Bootlegger

    • 448bladzijden
    • 16 uur lezen

    It is 1920. Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed while in pursuit of a rum-running vessel, his friend and employee, Isaac Bell, swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers. But Bell doesn't know what he is getting into.

    The Bootlegger7
    3,9
  8. The Assassin

    • 416bladzijden
    • 15 uur lezen

    Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell is investigating John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly, when a sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and it doesn't stop there. The murders--shootings, poisonings, staged accidents--have just begun as Bell tracks his phantom-like criminal adversary across the U.S., to Russia's war-torn Baku oil fields on the Caspian Sea, and back to America for a final, desperate confrontation. And this one will be the most explosive of all.

    The Assassin8
    4,0
  9. The Gangster

    • 416bladzijden
    • 15 uur lezen

    1906, New York City. Italian gangsters calling themselves the Black Hand terrorize citizens in a menacing spree of kidnapping, extortion and arson. Detective Isaac Bell is hired to form a special "Black Hand Squad" - but with each gangster caught a new one appears on the street. Are these new recruits or other criminals imitation the Black Hand?

    The Gangster9
    3,8
  10. 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 which leads him into increasingly more alarming territory. Anna Pape was not alone in her fate - petite young blonde women like Anna are being murdered in cities across America. And the pattern goes beyond the physical resemblance of the victims - there are disturbing familiarities about the killings themselves that send a chill through even 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.

    The Cutthroat10
    4,0
  11. The Titanic Secret

    • 352bladzijden
    • 13 uur lezen

    Both a prequel and a sequel to Clive Cussler's first bestselling phenomenon, Raise the Titanic!, the new Isaac Bell novel is a thrilling action-adventure novel from the Sunday Times-bestselling author. A century apart, Dirk Pitt and Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time.

    The Titanic Secret11
    4,0
  12. Detective Isaac Bell's investigation into an attempted assassination brings him to the construction site of the Panama Canal--and straight into a nest of vipers--in the latest adventure in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series from Clive Cussler. Detective Isaac Bell's wife has said that he is always in the wrong place at the right time. This is certainly the case when Bell thwarts the assassination of a U.S. Senator shortly after meeting the man. This heroic rescue is just the start of the mystery for Bell, who suspects that the would-be assassins have a much larger and more dangerous agenda--one involving the nearly constructed Panama Canal. While the senator supports the building of the canal, there are many, including a local Panamanian insurgency known as the Red Vipers, who never want to see its completion. With millions of dollars and the fates of two nations at stake, Bell heads to Panama to find answers. After a deadly bombing at the canal's construction site, he is determined to stop the insurgents--or whoever is funding them--before they can attack again.

    The Saboteurs12
    4,2