Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell is working hard to land a lucrative government anti-trust contract to investigate John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly, when the case takes a deadly turn. A sniper is murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and soon the assassin--shooting with extraordinary accuracy at seemingly impossible long range--kills Bell's best witness, a brave and likeable man. Then the shooter detonates a terrible explosion that sets the victim's independent refinery ablaze. Isaac Bell summons his best detectives to scour the site of the crime for evidence. Who is the assassin and for whom did he kill? But the murders--shootings, poisonings, staged accidents--have just begun as Bell tracks his phantom-like criminal adversary from the "oil fever" regions of Kansas and Texas to Washington, D.C., to the tycoons' enclave of New York, to Russia's war-torn Baku oil fields on the Caspian Sea, and back to America for a final, desperate confrontation. And this one will be... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге ASSASSIN, THE (UAB)(CD) (CUSSLER, CLIVE)