# The Wrecker

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- Book: [The Wrecker](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-kemprecos/the-wrecker) ([The Wrecker.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-kemprecos/the-wrecker.md))
- Authors: [Paul Kemprecos](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-kemprecos), [Paul Garrison](https://www.bookquiver.com/justin-scott)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4103-888-9
- Pages: 528
- Published: 2010-10-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

1907: train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's new express line . . . The desperate railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency, who send their best man, Isaac Bell. He quickly discovers that a saboteur calling himself the Wrecker is attacking the Southern Pacific with accomplices recruited from down-and-outs - who are killed afterward. The Wrecker strikes wherever he pleases, causing untold damage and loss of human life. Who is he? What does he want? Is he an anarchist? A revolutionary? A criminal mastermind? Whoever he is, whatever his motives, the Wrecker knows how to create havoc. And Bell is convinced he is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. If the Wrecker isn't stopped in time, more than a railroad is at risk - the future of the entire country is on the line . . .