Product Overview
Detective Isaac Bell tracks a killer across the nations oilfields in this adventure in the #1New York Timesbestselling historical series.
As Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefellers Standard Oil monopoly, the case takes a deadly turn. A sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and soon the assassinshooting with extraordinary accuracy at seemingly impossible long rangekills Bells best witness. Then the shooterdetonates a terrible explosion that sets the victims independent refinery ablaze.
Bell summons his best detectives to hunt down the mysterious killer. But the murdersshootings, poisonings, staged accidentshave just begun as Bell tracks his phantom-like criminal adversary from the oil fever regions of Kansas and Texas to Washington, D.C., to the tycoons enclave of New York, to Russias 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.
