Suggested Reading for OGR Membership.

Hi Dave

     Thanks for the tip, the book sounds very interesting.

It is also available as a audio book, audio books are fun if you are on a long vehicle trip.                                   See video trailer below book cover.

Gary

Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway  

 

Video Trailer...... There is a 10 second, pause before trailer begins.

A great read, lots of train action and interest!

Terrific book! Very intriguing story line with lots of railroad action. Would make an awesome movie! Hello Hollywood??

I like the Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency series that Cussler writes about. This one is an entertaining read. I recommend it highly. Cussler' s book Sahara also has train parts in it and it was made into a movie.
Ray.

Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt stories still remain my favorites.  But of all the other books he has co-written, the Isaac Bell stories are my second favorite.

 

The Wrecker is the second of nine (so far) Isaac Bell stories, and while it is an entertaining read, I would suggest that if someone is new to the Isaac Bell stories, they actually start with the first one, The Chase.  Here is a summary that I found on line for The Chase:

 

"April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. Inside is all that remains of three men who died forty-four years before.

 

But it is not the engine or its grisly contents that interest the people watching nearby. It is what is about to come next…

 

1906: For two years, the western states of America have been suffering an extraordinary crime spree: a string of bank robberies by a single man who cold-bloodedly murders any and all witnesses and then vanishes without a trace.

 

Fed up by the depredations of the “Butcher Bandit,” the U.S. government brings in the best man they can find – a tall, lean, no-nonsense detective named Isaac Bell, who has caught thieves and killers coast to coast.

 

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."

 

 

Jim

TrainroomGary,

   Thanks for the tip about the audio book, I will pick it up for my travels back and forth to Potter/Tioga.  I did not know THE WRECKER was in Audio format!  Ya got to love Isaac Bell and his honey in this book, great stuff.

 

Jim,

   I like Dirk but Isaac to me is even better!

 

Bryan,

    Got to admit the book would be a great movie, don't know if there is a director today that could do it justice however.  Could you see Tom Selleck as Isaac Bell.

 

Ken,

   Gary has a great suggestion with the Audio Book also.

 

 

PCRR/Dave