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Summary: Becoming Awesome
Review: It's been great watching him develop as an author. A hard, marker, I gave his first book an 8.5, but his last books have been 10's. When I hear the phrase "Can't put it down", I invariably discount it, but as this one closes, that phrase certainly applies.Read this book: Satisfaction guaranteed. I can't wait for Hunting Season!
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Summary: Trainman
Review: Something that puts me off about authors who use technical 'props' for their novels is innaccuracy: one slip, and it can sour the whole book. Deutermann's research into all the various elements which he ingeniously intertwines must have been exhaustive. You'd think he'd been on the railroads all his life - not to mention having been a State trooper, working for the FBI, while designing bridges in his spare time! The result is utterly convincing - leaving the reader free to be propelled along by the multi-threaded plot, which has quite a few twists. One, in particular, catches you out completely; but there are others, almost as good, which lose nothing in their effectiveness from being less unpredictable. Trainman is just a cracking good read!
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Summary: Two riveting stories for the price of one
Review: TRAIN MAN is one of those books that I couldn't put down, and which caused my wife some exasperation. ("Are you reading again?! Which do you love more - me or that book?") Uh, sorry ... what did you say, dear? This thriller by P.T. Deutermann is really two storylines in one, coming together only at the end. Each has its own protagonist and its own nutcase Bad Guy. The primary plot has the TRAIN MAN blowing up railroad river bridges in retaliation for a past personal tragedy. The Good Guy on his trail is FBI Acting Assistant Director William "Hush" Hanson, who departs the Machiavellian atmosphere of the FBI's Washington headquarters for the field to run his quarry to ground. However, even out in the sticks, Hush isn't safe from the backstabbing and internecine warfare back at the Big House as spans continue to drop into the water. And what sort of game is Senior Agent Carolyn Lang, Hanson's assigned deputy for the manhunt, playing? Is that a treacherous blade in her belt, or just a friendly nail file? The other wacko is US Army Colonel Mehle, down from the Pentagon and the National Security Council with explicit, no-nonsense orders to transport some captured Russian torpedoes with nuclear warheads from the Anniston Army Weapons Depot in Alabama to the Army's destruction facility in Tooele, Utah. The warheads need to go Right Now On The Double because they're leaking radiation, and the mode of transport is to be an Army train also taking chemical weapons to Utah for disposal. Top Brass pressure has made Mehle a bullet or two short of a full clip, so when the colonel decides to go along for the ride as the train's Full Throttle commander, Major Tom Matthews, the train's reluctant Security Officer, fears a bumpy ride and an inglorious end to his previously unblemished 20-year career. Oh, and have I mentioned that the Train Man's targets are the bridges over the lower Mississippi River, that part of the waterway smack in the path between Alabama and Utah? Can you see where this is going? Both plots are taut, suspenseful and finely paced, and the characters well drawn and believable. The identity of the TRAIN MAN comes as a surprise, though perhaps the revelation occurs too soon. Moreover, the author apparently researched America's rail system extensively, so the technical backdrop against which the action unfolds is very absorbing, especially if the reader has no prior knowledge of the subject. The novel's jacket compares it favorably to THE DAY OF THE JACKAL. I agree. This is quality reading entertainment.
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Summary: P.T. DEUTERMAN IS ONE OF THE BEST
Review: When a bridge is blown to pieces, the FBI wants a full-blown investigation. Assembling a team of two key players, Hush Hanson, and Carolyn Lang, the FBI wants answers for this act of terror. As another bridge has exploded, the two will enter into a feud with many different angles. Hidden agenda's, and suspicion of terrorist acts explode, leading Hanson, and Lang on a collision course with the madman behind it all...the Train Man. The tension is mounting, as a shipment of nuclear waste has been sent by train, forcing the pair to stop the Train Man before a horrible disaster. "Train Man" is another exciting outing from bestselling author P.T Deuterman, although the book contains too much description on trains, it does sustain a suspenseful, action-packed story line. Fans of action/thrillers will be swept away by the non-stop action, and vivid descriptions...it reads as if you are watching a movie. If you have not discovered Deuterman, do yourself a favor, READ him. Nick Gonnella
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Summary: P.T. DEUTERMAN IS ONE OF THE BEST
Review: When a bridge is blown to pieces, the FBI wants a full-blown investigation. Assembling a team of two key players, Hush Hanson, and Carolyn Lang, the FBI wants answers for this act of terror. As another bridge has exploded, the two will enter into a feud with many different angles. Hidden agenda's, and suspicion of terrorist acts explode, leading Hanson, and Lang on a collision course with the madman behind it all...the Train Man. The tension is mounting, as a shipment of nuclear waste has been sent by train, forcing the pair to stop the Train Man before a horrible disaster. "Train Man" is another exciting outing from bestselling author P.T Deuterman, although the book contains too much description on trains, it does sustain a suspenseful, action-packed story line. Fans of action/thrillers will be swept away by the non-stop action, and vivid descriptions...it reads as if you are watching a movie. If you have not discovered Deuterman, do yourself a favor, READ him. Nick Gonnella
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Summary: A Slow Train to China...
Review: Would be more exciting than Deuterman's boringly technical story of a vengeful "bridge blower". Nelson De Mille should be pilloried for lending his name to a promo suggesting this drudge is vaguely reminiscent of Day of the Jackal. Start with a wooden hero with the political savvy of a guppy who has somehow arrived at a high post in a highly politicized FBI stumbling his way into a scapegoat role, a sexy FBI insider assigned to nail our hero goat who "gets religion" and helps Agent Don Quijote go off on a field crusade to trap a villain who is so likely that it would be an award-winning surprise ending if he weren't the villain, an "In The Heat of the Night" type state trooper chief who helps our hero and his lady independently capture the cad while fending off the combined power of an interdisciplinary task force including White House representatives, the Departments of Transportation and Justice, the CIA, FBI, EPA and nasty competitive train companies (how they avoided tossing in Nader's Raiders or Greenpeace is beyond me), a parallel plot featuring a U.S. Army train with an unstable nuclear waste cargo, and more detail on blowing a bridge than would be contained in the IRA Bridge Blowing Manual, and you have one of the sleepiest reads in history. To the reviewer whose one line description was "Yawn" I say, "severely understated". The only reason this potboiler gets a second star is a mildly arousing masturbatory sex scene on a chaise lounge that jarred me awake...
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