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A review by wendyh65
The Race by Clive Cussler
4.0
This was my review for Kaiwaka Library...
It's 1910, only a handful of years since the Wright Brothers made their historic first flight in a powered aircraft. In a bid to promote and extend flight to the people of the United States of America, newspaper tycoon Preston Whiteway puts up $50,000 for the first airplane to cross the country in under 50 days. He's even sponsoring a plane himself - the daring and beautiful aviatrix Josephine Frost.
There's only one snag in that idea - Josephine witnessed her husband shooting her lover - and builder of her aircraft - and her very-rich-but-still-a-thug husband has vowed to kill her. No-one has managed to catch him yet, and the Van Dorn Detective Agency has been trying since he first started bashing his way into the newspaper business some years ago.
Isaac Bell is brought in to protect Josephine and catch Frost, and brings in Van Dorn men from all over the country to help - and ends up flying the entire race course himself as her escort. Not that he has ever flown before, but since when has that ever stopped anyone?! He drives an automobile and can drive a steam locomotive - how hard can it be?
This is a rollicking good yarn, exactly what I expected from these authors as I've read a few books in this series before. This is the fourth one written, but it's not necessary to read them in order, I've found.
It's 1910, only a handful of years since the Wright Brothers made their historic first flight in a powered aircraft. In a bid to promote and extend flight to the people of the United States of America, newspaper tycoon Preston Whiteway puts up $50,000 for the first airplane to cross the country in under 50 days. He's even sponsoring a plane himself - the daring and beautiful aviatrix Josephine Frost.
There's only one snag in that idea - Josephine witnessed her husband shooting her lover - and builder of her aircraft - and her very-rich-but-still-a-thug husband has vowed to kill her. No-one has managed to catch him yet, and the Van Dorn Detective Agency has been trying since he first started bashing his way into the newspaper business some years ago.
Isaac Bell is brought in to protect Josephine and catch Frost, and brings in Van Dorn men from all over the country to help - and ends up flying the entire race course himself as her escort. Not that he has ever flown before, but since when has that ever stopped anyone?! He drives an automobile and can drive a steam locomotive - how hard can it be?
This is a rollicking good yarn, exactly what I expected from these authors as I've read a few books in this series before. This is the fourth one written, but it's not necessary to read them in order, I've found.