# The Race by Clive Cussler (Paperback)

**1910, and 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. And 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 and Bell.  
  
Packed with brilliant twists and turns, _The Race_ sees the intrepid Private Investigator locked in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a killer whose resources are only matched by his willingness to cause mayhem during the race of a life time . . .  
  
**Clive Cussler** is the author or co-author of a great number of international bestsellers, including the famous Dirk Pitt adventures, such as _Crescent Dawn_; the NUMA Files adventures, the _Oregon_ Files, such as _The Jungle_; and the Isaac Bell historical thrillers, which began with _The Chase_. He lives in Arizona. www.clivecussler.co.uk  
  
**Justin Scott's** twenty six novels include _The Shipkiller_ and _Normandie Triangle_; the Ben Abbot detective series; and five modern sea thrillers published under his pen name Paul Garrison. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, the filmmaker Amber Edwards.

## Details

- **Price:** 11.49 GBP
- **Vendor:** Penguin
- **Type:** Clive Cussler
- **Tags:** Action & Adventure, Adult, Crime & Mystery, Historical Fiction, Paperback, Thriller & Suspense

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