Two Trains Running (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) - Softcover

Vachss, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1400079381 ISBN 13: 9781400079384

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 2006

Synopsis

In his most original and compelling book yet, Andrew Vachss presents an electrifying tale of corruption in a devastated mill town. It is 1959--a moment in history when the clandestine, powerful forces that will shape America to the present day are about to collide.Walker Dett is a hired gun, known for using the most extreme measures to accomplish his missions. Royal Beaumont is the "hillbilly boss" who turned Locke City from a dying town into a thriving vice capital. But organized crime outsiders are moving in on Beaumont's turf, so he reaches out for Dett in a high-risk move to maintain his power at all costs. Add a rival Irish political machine, a deeply entrenched neo-Nazi "party," the nascent black power movement, turf-disputing juvenile gangs, a muck-raking journalist who doubles as a blackmailer, the FBI--a covert observer and occasional participant which may itself be under surveillance-- and Locke City is about as stable as a nitroglycerin truck stalled on the railroad tracks.

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Two Trains Running Once a devastated mill town, by 1959 Locke City has established itself as a thriving center of vice tourism. In a town where crime and politics are virtually indivisible, other players await their turn onstage including juvenile gangs, an IRA unit, and a Mafia family. In a stunning departure from his usual territory, Vachss pens an epic story of postwar America. Full description

Review:

"Gripping. . . . It begins in the clipped, tough-guy manner of Dashiell Hammett . . . but by the end it enters a strange . . . twilight zone all its own." --The Wall Street Journal"Ambitious, expansive. . . . Walker Dett [is] a superb creation." --Entertainment Weekly"A sprawling epic. . . . A raw portrait of a volatile era." --Philadelphia City Paper"If you're craving a midsummer mystery . . . Andrew Vachss has something special for youÉa dark, violent and even weird tale. . . . The plot . . . zips ahead with the speed of one of those dangerously overpowered late-1950s Oldsmobile 88s. . . . The bits and pieces cut back and forth among the characters, like a fast-paced movie." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1400079381
• ISBN 13: 9781400079384
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464