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Isaac Bell
The Isaac Bell series by Clive Cussler has 15 known books (15 published) and is best read in publication order, starting with The Chase (2007). The latest book with a fully recorded publication date is The Iron Storm.
- Books
- 15 known books (15 novels)
- Published
- 15
- First published
- 2007
- Status
- ongoing
- Shelved under
- Historical Fiction, Adventure
- Last checked
Start here: The Chase (2007) — then read straight through in publication order.
Reading order
The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.
- Book 1:
The Chase
The Chase is the book that opens Clive Cussler's Isaac Bell series, a historical adventure published in 2007 at 448 pages. It's followed by The Wrecker, where Justin Scott joins as co-author, in a series that has run to fifteen books.
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The Wrecker
The Wrecker is the second book in the Isaac Bell series, co-written by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott and published in 2009 at 470 pages. It follows The Chase and precedes The Spy.
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The Spy
The Spy is the third entry in the Isaac Bell series, co-written by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott and published in 2010 at 457 pages. It follows The Wrecker and precedes The Race.
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The Race
The Race is the fourth book in the Isaac Bell series, co-written by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott and published in 2011 at 404 pages. It follows The Spy and precedes The Thief.
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The Thief
The Thief is the fifth entry in the Isaac Bell series, co-written by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott and published in 2012 at 510 pages. It follows The Race and precedes The Striker.
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The Striker
The Striker is the sixth book in the Isaac Bell series, co-written by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott and published in 2013 at 495 pages. It follows The Thief and precedes The Bootlegger.
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The Bootlegger
The Bootlegger is the seventh entry in the Isaac Bell series, co-written by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott and published in 2014 at 443 pages. It follows The Striker and precedes The Assassin.
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The Assassin
The Assassin is the eighth book in the Isaac Bell series, co-written by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott and published in 2015 at 416 pages. It follows The Bootlegger and precedes The Gangster.
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The Gangster
The Gangster is the ninth entry in the Isaac Bell series, co-written by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott and published in 2016 at 416 pages. It follows The Assassin and precedes The Cutthroat.
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The Cutthroat
The Cutthroat is the tenth book in the Isaac Bell series, co-written by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott and published in 2017 at 487 pages. It follows The Gangster and precedes The Titanic Secret, where Jack Du Brul takes over as Cussler's co-author.
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The Titanic Secret
The Titanic Secret is the eleventh entry in the Isaac Bell series, the point where Jack Du Brul joins Clive Cussler as co-author, published in 2019 at 416 pages. It follows The Cutthroat and precedes The Saboteurs.
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The Saboteurs
The Saboteurs is the twelfth book in the Isaac Bell series, co-written by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul and published in 2021 at 400 pages. It follows The Titanic Secret and precedes The Sea Wolves.
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The Sea Wolves
The Sea Wolves is the thirteenth entry in the Isaac Bell series, credited to Jack Du Brul alone, published in 2022 at 400 pages. It follows The Saboteurs and precedes The Heist.
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The Heist
The Heist is the fourteenth book in the Isaac Bell series, written by Jack Du Brul, published in 2024. It follows The Sea Wolves and precedes The Iron Storm.
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The Iron Storm
The Iron Storm is, as of this catalogue, the fifteenth and most recent entry in the Isaac Bell series, written by Jack Du Brul and published in 2025. It follows The Heist in a series that has run continuously since 2007.
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About the Isaac Bell series
Isaac Bell is the chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency in early-twentieth-century America, a Yale-educated, ivory-cane-wielding operative who chases saboteurs, robber-baron conspiracies and serial killers across a country still being built by railroads, oil derricks and Model Ts. Clive Cussler launched the series in 2007 as a period cousin to Dirk Pitt: the same appetite for elaborate action set pieces and a hero who is unbeatable at everything he attempts, but transplanted into a Gilded Age/Progressive Era setting rich with real history — the birth of American aviation, the rise of organized crime during Prohibition, the robber-baron industrial titans — that gives each case a distinctive backdrop the contemporary-set Cussler series can't offer.
Justin Scott co-wrote the bulk of the series through the 2010s, grounding Bell's adventures in meticulously researched period detail, before Jack Du Brul (who also writes the Oregon Files) took over starting with The Titanic Secret in 2019 and has continued the series solo since Cussler's 2020 death. Readers who enjoy Dirk Pitt's globe-trotting problem-solving but want it filtered through a Prohibition-and-railroads period setting — closer in spirit to a hardboiled pulp serial than a modern techno-thriller — are the natural audience for Isaac Bell.
Frequently asked questions
How many Isaac Bell books are there?
There are 15 Isaac Bell novels as of The Iron Storm (2025), starting with The Chase in 2007.
What order should I read the Isaac Bell books in?
Publication order, beginning with The Chase, is the recommended default. Each investigation is self-contained, though the series moves in rough historical sequence through the early twentieth century.
Who writes Isaac Bell now that Clive Cussler has died?
Jack Du Brul has written the series since The Titanic Secret (2019) and has continued it solo since Cussler's 2020 death. Justin Scott wrote the series through most of the 2010s before that.
Is Isaac Bell connected to Dirk Pitt or the other Cussler series?
No shared characters or plotlines — Isaac Bell is set decades earlier (early 1900s) and can be read entirely independently of Dirk Pitt, NUMA Files, the Oregon Files or the Fargo Adventures.
Is there a new Isaac Bell book coming?
No confirmed next title or date has been announced beyond The Iron Storm (2025) as of this writing.
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