In 1950, a steam locomotive rises from the waters of a Montana lake, revealing the remains of three men who died 44 years before. In 1906, no-nonsense detective Isaac Bell is called in to investigate a string of brutal armed robberies.

Detective Isaac Bell embarks on his most dangerous case yet. Aviation is still in its infancy, and Preston Whiteway is offering 50,000 to the first pilot to cross America in less than 50 days. One of the candidates is Josephine Frost.

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. When a witness to the shooting is executed in a manner peculiar

As private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly, the case takes a deadly turn. A sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and soon the assassin - shooting with extraordinary accuracy at seemingly impossible long range - kills Bell's best witness. Who is the a