As an avid reader of Clive Cussler books for many years I was enthralled when he created a new character hero for his books several years ago. Isaac Bell is a turn of the century, early 1900's Van Dorn Private Detective, who utilizes trains as his main form of transportation around the country as he works to bring the bad guys to justice.
The Striker is the latest in the series of Isaac Bell novels, all of them extensively featuring passenger trains. Clive Cussler along with Justin Scott as a co-author have written six novels in this series. The Striker is primarily about the coal industry and the workers striking to get better wages and working conditions with the help of union organizers.
Other novels in this series include, The Thief, The Race, The Spy, The Wrecker and The Chase. These are very well written "who done it" type of stories and get the reader involved in the deductive reasoning that the detectives use to solve their cases. Fun books to read and a lot of neat railroad nostalgia too!
Steve Tapper
They had not started remaking them at the time. 
