Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell is investigating John D. Rockefeller s Standard Oil monopoly, when a sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and it doesn t stop there. The murders shootings, poisonings, staged accidents have just begun as Bell tracks his phantom-like criminal adversary across the U.S., to Russia s war-torn Baku oil fields on the Caspian Sea, and back to America for a final, desperate confrontation. And this one will be the most explosive of all."