The Thief (Cussler novel)

The Thief

Author	Clive Cussler & Justin Scott
Country	United States
Language	English (American English)
Series	Isaac Bell tales
Genre	Thriller novel
Publisher	Putnam
Publication date	March 6, 2012
Media type	Print (Hardcover)^[1]
Pages	416 pp (first edition, hardcover)
ISBN	0-399-15861-8 (first edition, hardcover)
Preceded by	The Race (2011)
Followed by	The Striker (2013)

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.^[2]^[3]

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.^[4]^[5]

References

↑ This book has also been released as a Kindle Edition, as a Barnes & Noble Nook book, as a paperback and as various audio and CD editions.
↑ Amazon.com website, at http://www.amazon.com/Thief-Isaac-Bell-Adventure/dp/0399158618 .
↑ Barnes & Noble website, at http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-thief-clive-cussler/1104063666 .
↑ Amazon.com website.
↑ Goodreads website, at http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11890818-the-thief .

Works by Clive Cussler

Dirk Pitt Adventures	The Mediterranean Caper (1973) Iceberg (1975) Raise the Titanic! (1976) Vixen 03 (1978) Night Probe! (1981) Pacific Vortex! (1983) Deep Six (1984) Cyclops (1986) Treasure (1988) Dragon (1990) Sahara (1992) Inca Gold (1994) Shock Wave (1996) Flood Tide (1997) Atlantis Found (1999) Valhalla Rising (2001) Trojan Odyssey (2003) Black Wind (2004) Treasure of Khan (2006) Arctic Drift (2008) Crescent Dawn (2010) Poseidon's Arrow (2012) Havana Storm (2014)

The NUMA Files	Serpent (1999) Blue Gold (2000) Fire Ice (2002) White Death (2003) Lost City (2004) Polar Shift (2005) The Navigator (2007) Medusa (2009) Devil's Gate (2011) The Storm (2012) Zero Hour (2013) Ghost Ship (2014) The Pharaoh's Secret (2015)

Oregon Files	Golden Buddha (2003) Sacred Stone (2004) Dark Watch (2005) Skeleton Coast (2006) Plague Ship (2008) Corsair (2009) The Silent Sea (2010) The Jungle (2011) Mirage (2013) Piranha (2015) The Emperor's Revenge (2016)

Isaac Bell Adventures	The Chase (2007) The Wrecker (2009) The Spy (2010) The Race (2011) The Thief (2012) The Striker (2013) The Bootlegger (2014) The Assassin (2015) The Gangster (2016)

Fargo Adventures	Spartan Gold (2009) Lost Empire (2010) The Kingdom (2011) The Tombs (2012) The Mayan Secrets (2013 The Eye of Heaven (2014) The Solomon Curse (2015)

Non fiction	The Sea Hunters: True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks (1996) The Sea Hunters II: Diving the World's Seas for Famous Shipwrecks (2002)

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, March 01, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.