Justin Scott Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Two rival queens. History's greatest playwright. And a deadly plot for the crown. London, 1600. With no legitimate heir to Queen Elizabeth's throne, and no clear successor, England finds itself in a supremely perilous moment. When spymaster Anthony Bacon commands esteemed playwright William Shakespeare to write a play on the poisonous history of Queen Elizabeth and the rival monarch she executed, Catholic Mary Queen of Scots, Will knows that Elizabeth's one-time favorite, the powerful Earl of Essex, will use the play to try to seize her throne. Must Will be ensnared in a ruthless plot fated to tumble his country into civil war? Or can he navigate a treacherous path through the dark warrens of London and the tortuous world of Elizabethan politics to save his family, his country, and his Queen?

Forty days and forty nights of torrential rain swell the Mississippi River to the brink of deadly rampage. Clementine Price, a young Army Corps of Engineers officer born beside the river, draws on science, brutal loss, and a warrior spirit to protect the people and the homeland she loves from a catastrophic flood. Suddenly, she discovers that a richly funded domestic terrorist—hiding in plain sight as a pillar of the community— has ingeniously weaponized the looming natural disaster. Inspired by a river as powerful as it is unpredictable, his plot to inundate the Delta and cleave from America his own white supremacist nation is already in motion. Clementine has only hours to stop civil war and save millions from drowning. With the help of fellow Corps officers, civil servants, farmers, and local law enforcement, Clementine must harness the power of the torrent to turn nature’s fury against her enemy and embrace the raging river as her most potent ally.

Tijdens de drooglegging van de Verenigde Staten in de jaren twintig van de 20e eeuw strijden vele gangsterbendes om de macht. Detectivebureau Van Dorn raakt bij deze strijd betrokken wanneer een van hun medewerkers gewond raakt bij een schietpartij.

The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the killer to justice, he begins a manhunt which leads him into increasingly more alarming territory. Anna Pape was not alone in her fate - petite young blonde women like Anna are being murdered in cities across America. And the pattern goes beyond the physical resemblance of the victims - there are disturbing familiarities about the killings themselves that send a chill through even a man as experienced with evil as Bell. If he is right about his fears, then he is on the trail of one of the greatest monsters of his time.

1906, New York City. Italian gangsters calling themselves the Black Hand terrorize citizens in a menacing spree of kidnapping, extortion and arson. Detective Isaac Bell is hired to form a special "Black Hand Squad" - but with each gangster caught a new one appears on the street. Are these new recruits or other criminals imitation the Black Hand?

It is 1920. Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed while in pursuit of a rum-running vessel, his friend and employee, Isaac Bell, swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers. But Bell doesn't know what he is getting into.

1910. Sul transatlantico britannico Mauretania, partito dall'Inghilterra e diretto verso gli Stati Uniti, viaggiano due scienziati europei artefici di una sensazionale scoperta, che nascondono nel timore di vederla cadere nelle mani sbagliate. A conferma delle loro peggiori paure, durante il viaggio i due rischiano di essere rapiti, ma l'intervento provvidenziale dell'intrepido capo della Van Dorn Detective Agency in persona, Isaac Bell, li salva. Gli assalitori però non si danno per vinti, e in un secondo attacco uno dei due scienziati perde tragicamente la vita. In che cosa consiste davvero la loro scoperta? E se fosse la chiave per rivoluzionare l'economia, la cultura e forse qualcosa di ancora più importante? Isaac Bell si ritroverà coinvolto in una schermaglia letale contro un agente segreto senza scrupoli che non si fermerà davanti a niente pur di fornire ai tedeschi un vantaggio nella strada che porterà alla guerra. Il detective dovrà scoprire l'identità e gli obiettivi di quest'uomo nel disperato tentativo di fermarne l'opera. Ma potrebbe essere già troppo tardi.

1902. Sono passati solo due anni dal suo apprendistato presso la Van Dorn Detective Agency, quando un brillante ma inesperto Isaac Bell ha un messaggio urgente per il suo capo. Ingaggiato per scovare sabotatori unionisti nelle miniere di carbone, assiste a un terribile incidente che potrebbe essere il risultato di una macchinazione ben più complessa di quanto i suoi superiori possano pensare. Ma Isaac non può neanche immaginare quanto alta sia la posta in gioco. Con una settimana di tempo per dimostrare la validità delle sue ipotesi, Bell si trova a fronteggiare due degli avversari più temibili e spietati che abbia mai incontrato, uomini crudeli e divorati dall’ambizione che non si lasceranno mettere i bastoni tra le ruote da un giovane detective alle prime armi...