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3.7/5 Barnes & Noble Publication date March 6, 2012 Followed by The Striker (2013) Preceded by The Race ISBN 0-399-15861-8 | 4/5 Goodreads Publisher Putnam Media type Print (Hardcover) Originally published 6 March 2012 Genre Thriller Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language English (American English) Pages 416 pp (first edition, hardcover) Similar Clive Cussler books, Isaac Bell Detective series books, Thriller books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Thief is an Isaac Bell adventure tale, the fifth in that series. The hardcover edition was released March 6, 2012. Other editions were released on different dates.
Contents
Plot
This book is set in 1910, as European countries are trying for the United States' influence as the world is moving toward war. Several Van Dorn detectives led by Isaac Bell are on the ocean liner RMS Mauretania escorting a prisoner from Europe to New York. Bell interrupts the attempted kidnapping of two scientists, who it turns out invented a completely functional talking picture machine. A group of Germans desperately want this machine for use in their propaganda efforts and their leader will stop at nothing to seize it, including killing one of the scientists while aboard the Mauretania. The only working machine is destroyed in a fire aboard the Mauretania, and the remaining scientist works in California on a new machine. Bell spends his time uncovering the plot to steal the machine. This book has many twists and turns and is full of action.
Reviews
As of February 2013, no reviews from professional reviewers were located. This book had been reviewed by 117 customers on the Amazon.com website, as of February 2013. They gave the book an average of 3.9 out of a possible five stars. The Goodreads website also had 117 reviews by the public giving the book 3.83 of five stars.