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Train Man (1999)

par P. T. Deutermann

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Only six major rail bridges cross the Mississippi River and connect one half of our country to the other. When one of them collapses as a freight train is crossing, the FBI sends agents Hush Hanson and Carolyn Lang to investigate. Hush and Carolyn suspect a bomb, but there are no clues to suggest who planted it.Meanwhile, at an Alabama army depot, a military train carrying a deadly cargo begins its journey west. This train must cross the Mississippi before its cargo becomes unstable - and then another bridge goes down.As more bridges go down and the plight of the doomsday train intensifies, it becomes ever more obvious that Hanson is being set up to take a fall as part of some bureaucratic political intrigue within the FBI."Intelligent, expertly detailed, and highly suspenseful, Train Man is a speeding entertainment locomotive." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)… (plus d'informations)

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My experience with this author is that he begins a book with a fascinating premise, and then he talks it to death before the book is over. I get hooked in by the plot, and then the book is weighed down by all the detail.

Mr. Deutermann's newer books are better about this, but his earlier books (including this one) are sprinkled with sexist remarks, some subtle and others blatant. This is not an exact quote because I don't have the book in front of me, but here's an example: "Mr. 'X' strode confidently through the field, Miss 'Y' picking her way through the grass close behind."

I'm a non-militant feminist and I don't seek out non-PC language, but some of the phrasing leaps out at me. (

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kkatieh | Jul 10, 2021 |

Any human organization is composed of people of varying abilities. There are two types of people no organization can sustain: the super-competent and the super-incompetent. It's easy to understand why the super-incompetent can't be sustained; the problem with the super-competent is more subtle but with a little thought it is not impossible to figure this out. This is a story of a super-competent FBI agent on the trail of a diabolically clever bad guy. And, because that FBI agent is super-competent, he's fighting on several fronts at once. The main premise is, of course, ridiculous but that is irrelevant to the suspense that builds almost invisibly but relentlessly. Being a "good" mystery, that is one where good triumphants over evil, the end is predictable but a reader should allow that to lull them. (

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Only six major rail bridges cross the Mississippi River and connect one half of our country to the other. When one of them collapses as a freight train is crossing, the FBI sends agents Hush Hanson and Carolyn Lang to investigate. Hush and Carolyn suspect a bomb, but there are no clues to suggest who planted it.Meanwhile, at an Alabama army depot, a military train carrying a deadly cargo begins its journey west. This train must cross the Mississippi before its cargo becomes unstable - and then another bridge goes down.As more bridges go down and the plight of the doomsday train intensifies, it becomes ever more obvious that Hanson is being set up to take a fall as part of some bureaucratic political intrigue within the FBI."Intelligent, expertly detailed, and highly suspenseful, Train Man is a speeding entertainment locomotive." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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