Аннотация
Clive Cussler, Justin Scott
The Thief
Book One: Talking Pictures
1
THE CUNARD FLYER MAURETANIA CROSSING THE BAR“Hear that?”
“Hear what?” asked Archie.
“Fast motorboat.”
“You have ears like a bat, Isaac. All I hear is the ship.”
Isaac Bell, a tall, lean man of thirty with a golden head of hair and a thick, impeccably groomed mustache, strode to the boat deck railing and stared intently into the dark. He wore the costume of a sober Hartford, Connecticut, insurance executive: a sailing day suit of Harris tweed, a low-crowned hat with a broad brim, made-to-order boots, and a gold watch chain draped across his narrow waist.
“It’s not the ship.”
They were sailing home to America on the Cunard flyer Mauretania, the fastest liner in the world, bound for New York with twenty-two hundred passengers, eight hundred crew, and six thousand sacks of mail. Down in the fiery darkness of her stokehold, hundreds of men la...
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