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CONTENTS
Also by Clive Cussler
Title Page
Copyright
Cast of Characters
PROLOGUE | Murder and High Jinks
BOOK I | Captain Coligney’s Pink Tea
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
BOOK II | Pull
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
BOOK III | Storm King
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
BOOK IV | The Gangster
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
EPILOGUE | THE CARTEL BUSTER
About the Author
CAST OF CHARACTERS
1895
Antonio Branco Immigrant Sicilian “pick and shovel man.”
The padrone Labor contractor, Antonio Branco’s boss.
Isaac Bell, Doug, Andy, Larry, Jack, Ron College freshman classmates.
Mary Clark Student at Miss Porter’s School.
Eddie “Kansas City” Edwards Van Dorn detective.
1906
White Hand
Maria Vella Giuseppe Vella’s twelve-year-old daughter.
Giuseppe Vella New York excavation contractor.
David LaCava Little Italy banker, proprietor of Banco LaCava.
Sante Russo Giuseppe Vella’s foreman and blaster.
Black Hand
Antonio Branco Wealthy wholesale grocer, Catskill Aqueduct purveyor.
Charlie Salata Italian street gang leader; Black Hand extortionist.
Vito Rizzo Salata Gang lieutenant.
Ernesto Leone A counterfeiter.
Roberto Ferri A smuggler.
Sicilian groom
Francesca Kennedy A killer.
Irish Gangsters
Ed Hunt, Tommy McBean Cousins, Gopher Gang graduates, founders of the West Side Wallopers.
Van Dorn Agency Private Detectives
Joseph Van Dorn Founder and Chief Investigator, “The Boss,” the “old man.”
Isaac Bell Van Dorn’s top man, founder of Black Hand Squad.
Wally Kisley, Mack Fulton Explosives expert and safecracking expert, respectively; partners known as “Weber & Fields.”
Harry Warren Born Salvatore Guaragna, head of New York Gang Squad.
Archibald Angell Abbott IV Blue-blood New Yorker, a “Princeton man,” former actor, boxer, Bell’s best friend.
Aloysius “Wish” Clarke A drinking man.
Eddie “Kansas City” Edwards Rail yard specialist.
Bronson San Francisco field office.
Grady Forrer Head of Research, New York field office.
Scudder Smith Former newspaper reporter experienced in vice.
Eddie Tobin Apprentice detective.
Richie Cirillo Underage apprentice detective.
Helen Mills Van Dorn intern, Isaac Bell’s protégée, Bryn Mawr College student, daughter of U.S. Army brigadier general Gary Tannenbaum Mills.
Friends of Isaac Bell
Marion Morgan His fiancée.
Enrico Caruso World-renowned opera tenor.
Luisa Tetrazzini Coloratura soprano, the “Florentine Nightingale,” a rising star.
Tammany Hall
Boss Fryer “Honest Jim” Fryer, political kingpin of New York City.
Brandon Finn Boss Fryer’s henchman.
“Rose Bloom” Brandon Finn’s paramour.
Alderman James Martin Member of the “Boodle Board.”
“Kid Kelly” Ghiottone Former bantamweight prizefighter, saloon keeper, Tammany Hall’s man in Little Italy.
Plutocrats
J. B. Culp Wall Street magnate, Hudson Valley aristocrat, inheritor of steamboat and railroad fortunes, founder of the Cherry Grove Gentlemen’s Society.
Daphne Culp J. B. Culp’s wife.
Brewster Claypool J. B. Culp’s lawyer.
Warren D. Nichols Banker, philanthropist, member of Cherry Grove Society.
Lee, Barry Prizefighters, J. B. Culp’s bodyguards and sparring partners.
Cops
Captain Mike Coligney Head of the NYPD’s Tenderloin Precinct.
Lieutenant Joe Petrosino Founder of the NYPD’s Italian Squad.
Chris Lynch Secret Service Counterfeit Squad.
Rob Rosenwald New York District Attorney sleuth.
Commissioner Bingham New NYPD official shaking up the department.
Sheriff of Orange County
Cherry Grove Bordello
Nick Sayers The proprietor.
Jenny A resident.
The White House
Theodore Roosevelt “Teddy,” “TR,” President of the United States, Spanish-American War hero, former Governor of New York State, former Police Commissioner of New York City.
Chief of the President’s Secret Service protection corps
The Catskill Aqueduct
Dave Davidson Contractors’ Protective Association, superintendent of labor camps.
Contractors
Irish foreman
PROLOGUE
Murder and High Jinks
New Haven, 1895
Chest-deep in a ditch, an Italian pick and shovel man looked up at a rush of custom-made shoes and broadcloth trousers inches from his face. Rich American students were scooping handfuls from the earth pile and sifting the sandy red soil through their fingers.
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