The Unsinkable: A Historical Mystery Thriller Set Aboard the Titanic (Harlan Beckett Series, Book 1)

April 1912.The greatest ship ever built.A fire burning in her belly since Belfast. Former Pinkerton agent Harlan Beckett boards the RMS Titanic at Cherbourg with a straightforward assignment: stay invisible, watch over three of America's most powerful men — John Jacob Astor, Isidor Straus, Benjamin Guggenheim — and keep them alive until New York. Simple enough. Except nothing aboard Titanic is what it appears to be. A coal fire has been burning deep inside the ship since before she left the shipyard. A bulkhead that should be solid may already be compromised. An officer who doesn't appear on any watch schedule moves through first-class staterooms and stoker passages with equal ease. And the documents Beckett was told to ignore are beginning to suggest that the three men he's protecting aren't targets of opportunity. They were chosen.The Unsinkable is a historical mystery-thriller that takes one of history's most documented disasters and asks the question no official inquiry ever answered: what was happening below the surface before the iceberg ever appeared? Beckett is not a gentleman detective. He is a working-class operative with a Midwesterner's distrust of wealth, a Pinkerton's eye for surveillance, and a moral compass that has gotten him into trouble since the day he was born. He reads rooms the way other men read maps — fast, accurately, and with full awareness of every exit. As Titanic speeds west through ice-field waters, Beckett must untangle a conspiracy threaded through the highest levels of American finance and government — before the Atlantic swallows every witness, every document, and every man he was sent to protect.Before the Ice, There Was Fire.Perfect for readers who enjoy Jack Reacher-style protagonists in historical settings, fans of Clive Cussler's adventure thrillers, and anyone drawn to the hidden machinery beneath famous events. The Harlan Beckett Mystery Series follows one operative through the most dangerous decades in American history — each book anchored in a real event, a real conspiracy, and one man who refuses to look the other way.Book 1 of the Harlan Beckett Mystery Series. Read more