The Race is the fourth turn of the century thriller by Clive Cussler. 1910 & 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. & 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 & Bell. Packed with brilliant twists & turns The Race sees the intrepid Private Investigator locked in a deadly cat-&-mouse game with a killer whose resources are matched only by his willingness to cause mayhem during the race of a lifetime... Clive Cussler's The Race is the international bestselling author's follow up to The Spy & 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. Praise for Clive Cussler: Frightening & full of suspense.. .unquestionably entertaining". (Daily Express). " All-action narrow escapes & 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; & the Isaac Bell historical thrillers which began with The Chase. He lives in Arizona. Justin Scott's twenty six novels include The Shipkiller & Normandie Triangle; the Ben Abbot detective series; & five modern sea thrillers published under his pen name Paul Garrison. He lives in Connecticut with his wife the filmmaker Amber Edwards."