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The Insane Train (2010)

by Sheldon Russell(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0312566719 (ISBN13: 9780312566715)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Minotaur Books

series

Hook Runyon Mystery

review 1: The main character was a little too flip for my taste and many of the characters seemed to have the same way of talking, so it was hard to differentiate one from the other. There was no real sense of menace. I liked the atmosphere, though, and the descriptions of insanity and insane asylums, trains and railroads, and police and law enforcement in the post-WWII years. The mystery itself was passable and the main character, while suspicious of what was going on, seemed a little too slow on the uptake. Just my opinion.
review 2: A stolidly constructed hard-boiled with a winning one-armed protagonist and plenty of zippy dialog. It's a fun train ride, don't get me wrong, but the insane asylum milieu wasn't all that compelling, and now I've got to put off reading tha... moret Denis Lehane book for another couple of months. The real reason I was attracted to the novel was the setting -- or should I say environment? It's a road movie of a book, so the setting is constantly changing. Anyway, the protagonist, Hook Runyon, is a railroad cop, a "yard dog" with a wicked prosthesis and lots of lady friends. I was hoping that the whole thing would really help me get submerged in the world of the rail yard in the early 20th century, but I really only felt dipped. less

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