Train Man

by Deutermann, Peter T.

• ISBN13: 9781568951423
• ISBN10: 1568951426
• Edition: Large
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc

Summary

Only six major railroad bridges cross the Mississippi River between St. Louis and New Orleans. When one of them collapses, FBI Assistant Director Hush Hanson organizes a federal task force to investigate. Evidence points to a bomb, but there are no clues to suggest who planted it.

One night after a second bridge incident, an Air Force C-130 crash-lands on a secret military installation in Alabama, and its deadly cargo has to be transferred to a military train. Within days, this train must cross the Mississippi before its cargo becomes dangerously unstable...but then another bridge goes down in the night.

As the task force scrambles to find the perpetrators, internal FBI politics begin to coil around Hanson and his task force deputy, senior special agent Carolyn Lang.

Fast-paced and grippingly realistic, Train Man weaves three plots together into a white-hot filament of suspense as the mighty bridges come thundering down. When the huge armored engines of the Army train arrive for their rendezvous with the last available bridge, Hanson and Lang finally come