The Heist

The summer of 1914 finds Isaac Bell aboard President Wilson's presidential yacht when a biplane attacks, and the counterplot that emerges involves the newly established Federal Reserve, a heist targeting the currency that will define a new American financial system, and a murder in Rhode Island that sends Bell racing to protect an institution whose theft could destroy a fragile national economy. Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul ground the thriller in the precise historical moment when American financial infrastructure was being established.

Scott Brick narrates with his signature period authority, giving the early twentieth-century setting its proper atmosphere of innovation and danger. His Bell is the same combination of relentless investigative intelligence and physical capability that Cussler and Scott have developed across the series, and Brick has embodied the character long enough that the performance feels inhabited rather than performed. The audiobook handles the historical banking material with the same energy as the action sequences, which is the series' consistent achievement.