THE WRECKER
Book ID/图书代码： 10720008B30161
English Summary/英文概要： It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency. Van Dorn sends in his best man, and Bell quickly discovers that a mysterious saboteur haunts the hobo jungles of the West, a man known as the Wrecker, who recruits accomplices from the down-and-out to attack the railroad, and then kills them afterward. The Wrecker traverses the vast spaces of the American West as if he had wings, striking wherever he pleases, causing untold damage and loss of human life. Who is he? What does he want? Is he a striker? An anarchist? A revolutionary determined to displace the “privileged few”? A criminal mastermind engineering some as yet unexplained scheme?
Whoever he is, whatever his motives, the Wrecker knows how to create maximum havoc, and Bell senses that he is far from done—that, in fact, the Wrecker is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. If Bell doesn’t stop him in time, more than a railroad could be at risk—it could be the future of the entire country.
Filled with intricate plotting and dazzling set pieces, The Wrecker is one of the most entertaining thrillers in years.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Clive Cussler是美國當代首屈一指的驚險小說大師，美國驚險小說協會（American action adventure novel）主席。寫過29本書，作品被翻譯成40種文字，引進到100多個國家，銷量超過1.25億本。 全球熱映大片《撒哈拉奇兵》、《打撈泰坦尼克號》等均改編自他的小說。他本人也是一位海洋探險家，正是《倒轉地極》一書中的國家水下暨海洋機構（NUMA）特別行動隊的領導者。
1907年，金融恐慌和勞動力動盪的一年，南太平洋鐵路公司的凱斯科德斯線的火車失事，火災，爆炸破壞，使得鐵路局不得不雇傭范多恩偵探公司來幫忙。範多恩派出了他們最優秀的員工，貝爾很快發現這個神秘的破壞者經常出沒于西部流浪人員聚集地，一個以破壞者著稱的人招募這些破壞事件的共犯，並在事後將他們殺害。這個破壞者如同長了翅膀，橫貫了整個美國西部，攻擊任何他喜歡的地方，給人們生活造成巨大損失。他究竟是誰？他究竟想要什麼？他是一個罷工者？還是一個無政府主義者？一個堅決反對特權的革命者？還是一個策劃犯罪的智多星？
無論他是誰，無論他在哪裡，這個破壞者知道怎樣創造最大的破壞，貝爾感覺，事情遠沒有結束-----事實上，破壞者已策劃了一起比之前的事件都要巨大的計畫，如果貝爾沒有及時阻止他，那麼不止一條鐵路都將處於危險境界，而這也將是整個國家的未來。
錯綜複雜的故事脈絡，本書將是本年度最精彩的小說。(Claire)
Awards/获奖情况：THE WRECKER by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott appears at position #5 on PW Hardcover Bestseller list of November 30, 2009.
THE WRECKER by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott appears at position #6 on the NY Times Bestseller list of December 6, 2009.
THE WRECKER by Clive Cussler with Justin Scott appears at position #9. on PW Hardcover Bestsellers/Fiction of December 7, 2009.
THE WRECKER by Clive Cussler with Justin Scott appears at position #9 on the hardcover fiction list on NYTimes Bestseller lists of December 13, 2009
THE WRECKER by Clive Cussler with Justin Scott appears at position #15 on the hardcover list on NY Times bestseller lists of December 20, 2009
Set in 1907, the rousing second thriller to feature detective Isaac Bell (after The Chase) from bestseller Cussler and Scott pits Bell against the Wrecker, who’s been destroying trains and railroad facilities around the country for no apparent reason. These horrific incidents are wreaking havoc on the plans of Osgood Hennessy, the Southern Pacific Railroad’s president, who’s constructing the massive Cascade Canyon Bridge in Oregon. If the project isn’t completed by winter, Hennessy’s bankers will withdraw financing and his company will be destroyed. As in the first book, the purposefully stilted writing style takes a little getting used to, but there’s plenty of excitement to be had in a world where massive, fire-breathing trains fly along at speeds of up to 120 mph. While the Wrecker’s identity is revealed early on and there’s never any doubt that Isaac will get his man, readers will find many thrills and much diabolical cleverness along the way. (Nov.) ---From Publishers Weekly
Cussler, known primarily for his contemporary high-tech thrillers, steps back in time—more than a century, in fact—in this rousing sequel to The Chase (2007). Van Dorn Detective Agency operative Isaac Bell returns, this time to track down a clever saboteur who’s been dubbed the Wrecker. Seems the Wrecker has it in for the Southern Pacific Company, and he will stop at nothing, including murder, to keep the company from putting through a new railway line between San Francisco and northern California. Isaac is a sharply drawn series lead, and the story, as befits a railroad-themed thriller, moves at a brisk clip. In addition, there’s a very nice surprise in the final scenes. Readers who have sensed a certain been-there-done-that feeling in some of Cussler’s recent novels will be pleased to find a new spark here. More Isaac Bell novels would be most welcome.---David Pitt, From Booklist
About the Author/作者介绍： Clive Cussler grew up in Alhambra, California. In addition to being the Chairman of NUMA(www.numa.net), Cussler is also a fellow in both the Explorers Club of New York and the Royal Geographic Society in London. He has been honored with the Lowell Thomas Award for outstanding underwater exploration. Cussler has been married to his wife, Barbara Knight, for more than 44 years. They have three children, two grandchildren, and divide their time between the mountains of Colorado and the deserts of Arizona.
Clive Cussler出生於美國加利福尼亞, 是美國當代首屆一指的驚險小說大師，美國驚險小說協會（American action adventure novel）主席,另外還是Cussler還是紐約探險俱樂部和英國皇家地理協會的會員, 舉世注矚目的水下探險為他贏得了湯瑪斯獎. 與妻子Barbara Knight結婚已有44年,育有三子。
Justin Scott is the author of twenty-four thrillers and mystery novels, written under his own name (The Shipkiller) and the pen name of Paul Garrison (Fire and Ice). He has twice been nominated for an Edgar Award given by the Mystery Writers of America.
Justin Scott共著有24部驚險小說，兩次受美國推理作家協會(Mystery Writers of America)愛德格獎提名。
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