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Maxwell's Train A Thriller By Christopher Hyde Novel Dust Jacket 1984 273 pages
Maxwells Train A Thriller By Christopher Hyde Novel Dust Jacket 1984 273 pages Ex-library Book
Fact #1: Each week Amtrak ships 35 million dollars of Federal Reserve cash on an overnight train from Washington, D.C., to Boston.
Fact #2: Due to bureaucratic red tape and jurisdictional confusion, there is no coherent policy or central government agency capable of successfully countering a terrorist attack in the United States.
In Maxwell's Train, Christopher Hyde combines these two truths in a powerful, fast-moving thriller that is frightening in its authenticity and heart-stopping in its excitement.
When Harry Maxwell, Amtrak maintenance man and three-time failure, learns of this multimillion-dollar shipment, he decides to steal the money and turn his life around. Unfortunately for Harry, the shipment is also marked for a heist by Annalise Shenker, the deadly leader of a violent international terrorist group. She not only wants the money but also craves the notoriety of staging the first terrorist attack in this country.
Harry wants to take the money and run; Annalise, on the other hand, will stop at nothing-even if it means taking the lives of the innocent passengers of Amtrak's Night Owl.
Thus begins the torturous and frightening journey when the terrorists hijack the train and reroute it through the United States and into the desolate wilds of the Canadian Rockies. The train itself becomes a moving deathtrap for any passenger who dares to disobey Annalise and her ruthless cohorts, who include Sheila Teng, a 1980s incarnation of a kamikaze warrior; Amal Akbar, a Libyan who is known for his sadistic acts; and Mohamet Kawi, Annalise's brilliant and cold-blooded lover.
Yet Annalise-master strategist- never planned for Harry and his motley but ingenious band of fellow passengers: Daniel, Harry's best friend and partner in crime; Cavendish, an embittered, crippled Vietnam vet; Mottbrown, a mousy man whose penchant for studying railway history proves invaluable; and Wanda Margay, a feisty seventy-year-old veteran traveler on the trains. What should have been an easy victory for the terrorists turns into a devastating battle when Harry decides to save the train and reclaim the money for himself.
Compelling, chilling, and eerily plausible, Maxwell's Train is packed with tension that leaves you breathless, excited, and-most terrifying of all-totally vulnerable. Could this happen here? Maxwell's Train never fails to surprise as it careens toward its powerful conclusion.
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