When I looked at the books authored by Clive Cussler I was amazed at how many he was able to put out, sometimes three a year. Then I found out that most all of them were co-written. This book was the first book Cussler has not co-written with another writer in four years, and I think it shows. This is one of the wildest, most entertaining historical thrillers we've read in years. Filled with suspense, action, and sheer audacity, we both thought is was an extremely well written story that constantly kept your attention from beginning to end. Of course another thing we really enjoyed was the fact that much of the book surrounds San Francisco, Connie's birthplace, and the town of Ryolite, Nevada, an old mining town that we visited just recently. [We both gave it 5-Stars]
DESCRIPTION: The Chase is a historical adventure thriller set in the time of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. A turn of the century adventure novel about a ruthless bank robber, labled the "Butcher Bandit", who leaves no one alive behind robbing bank after bank by non intrusively first blending into a town, then fading away unnoticed, therefore not missed by a soul. After two years the U.S. government brings in the best man they can find, a tall, lean, no-nonsense detective named Isaac Bell. Bell is a charismatic detective wealthy enough to spend his days in leisure, but too young for inactivity, who has made it his vocation in life to catch criminals who think their wits give them license to break the law and get away with it. But Bell has never had a challenge like this one. From Arizona to Colorado to the streets of San Francisco during its calamitous earthquake and fire, he pursues what is quickly becoming clear to him is the sharpest criminal mind he has ever encountered, and the woman who seems to hold the key to the bandit's identity. Using science, deduction, and intuition, Bell repeatedly draws near only to grasp at thin air, but at least he knows his pursuit is having an effect. Because his quarry is getting angry now, and has turned the chase back on him. The hunter has become the hunted. And soon it will take all of Isaac Bell's skills not merely to prevail . . . but to survive.
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When I looked at the books authored by Clive Cussler I was amazed at how many he was able to put out, sometimes three a year. Then I found out that most all of them were co-written. This book was the first book Cussler has not co-written with another writer in four years, and I think it shows. This is one of the wildest, most entertaining historical thrillers we've read in years. Filled with suspense, action, and sheer audacity, we both thought is was an extremely well written story that constantly kept your attention from beginning to end. Of course another thing we really enjoyed was the fact that much of the book surrounds San Francisco, Connie's birthplace, and the town of Ryolite, Nevada, an old mining town that we visited just recently. [We both gave it 5-Stars]
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