A New York Times Bestseller -- The fourth novel to feature Isaac Bell, the head operative of the Van Dorn Detective Agency Clive Cussler is acclaimed worldwide as the Grand Master of Adventure. Cussler is the author of three other adventure series: Dirk Pitt, the NUMA Files, and the Oregon Files. There are nearly 100 million copies in print of his bestselling Dirk Pitt® novels. Justin Scott has written twenty-nine thrillers and mystery novels, including The Shipkiller, Normandie Triangle, A Pride of Royals, Rampage, The Widow of Desire, The Nine Dragons, and Treasure Island: A Modern Novel. With many of his books set at sea, he has been called "the Dick Francis of yachting." Scott writes under the pen name of Paul Garrison. It is 1910, the age of flying machines is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than fifty days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates -- an intrepid woman named Josephine Frost -- and that?s where Isaac Bell, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency, comes in. Frost?s violent-tempered husband has just killed her lover and tried to kill her...