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Foamers by Jon Berson (1997, Hardcover)
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Author: Jon Berson
Publisher: Scribner
Publication Date: 1997-07-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 068483586X
ISBN-13: 9780684835860
Product ID: EPID716965
Description: FBI agent Jennifer Szcymanski investigates a series of mysterious wrecks involving some of the greatest trains in America.
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| Synopsis FBI agent Jennifer Szcymanski investigates a series of mysterious wrecks involving some of the greatest trains in America.
Publisher's Note A train crashes in the bayou. A woman lies injured in the mud. A rescuer reaches to help, then pushes her face deeper into the slime, recording her gasps on his portable cassette player. He's a foamer, a train fanatic, who tapes the sounds of dying. Larry McBryde, newly divorced father of a young daughter, is tried of his bureaucratic job at Philadelphia's public transportation authority. Even trains, his one true obsession, are gradually losing their power to excite him. But when fellow foamer Georgia Huxley pays five thousand dollars for a disturbing black market tape of train accidents--the crashes, the explosions, the screams, the ambulance sirens--McBryde finds his mission. Whoever made the tapes must also have masterminded many of the high-profile accidents recently in the news, for how else could the tape maker have been so conveniently at the scene? And that somebody must be a foamer because only a foamer would conceive of a potential market fur such a tape--a foamer like McBryde, who knows every train an track and schedule and bit of terrain. A foamer would know just where to plant a bomb or derail a train. Meanwhile, in Pierre, South Dakota, young FBI agent Jennifer Szczymanski is eager to prove herself as the office's first female investigator, but she's not willing to put up with sexual harassment from her unsympathetic boss. So it's good-bye Pierre and back to D.C., where Szczymanski is thrilled to be offered a "high priority" case involving a suspicious series of train accidents. But is he case truly "high priority"? Szczymanski soon discovers that she's been shunted aside into an investigation that's considered a certain dead end. Furious and frustrated, she vows to pursue with or without Bureau support. But whom she trust? Not her FBI colleagues, who may sabotage her or her work, and certainly not foamer Larry McBryde, whom she encounters early and repeatedly as she begins to see a pattern in the "accidents." Nor can McBryde trust Szczymanski, although he's increasingly drawn to her. It's troubling that her name pops up on the passenger list of just about every train that eventually crashes. Independently, McBryde and Szczymanski board the Lake Shore Limited bound for Chicago. As the train pulls out of New York, only the killer knows for sure that this is a train heading for disaster. FOAMERS is page-turning entertainment packed with unique and memorable train lore from a brilliant young thriller writer sure to become a favorite of readers everywhere. FBI agent Jennifer Szczymanski and train enthusiast Larry McBryde must overcome their initial suspicion of each other to track down a saboteur whose next target is one of the longest railway tunnels in North America Industry Reviews Book Jacket - Stephen Greenleaf Book Jacket - Peter Robinson Del Negro | See an error? Submit a change request | ||||||||||||||||
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