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Detective Isaac Bell returns in the extraordinary new adventure in the #1 New York Times- bestselling series. It is 1920, and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Isaac Bell' s boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed leading the high-speed chase of a rum-running vessel, Bell swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers, but he doesn' t know what he is getting into. When a witness to Van Dorn' s shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner invented by the Russian secret police, it becomes clear that these are no ordinary criminals. Bell is up against a team of Bolshevik assassins and saboteurs-- and they are intent on overthrowing the government of the United States.