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Penzler Pick, June 2001: Ridley Pearson, who have written 14 previous books, most of them featuring his Seattle cop Lou Boldt, ups the ante in his latest thriller.Northern Union Railroad has been experiencing some accidents with their freight trains, but it is not until they find a freight car protected with blood that they call in outside help. Peter Tyler used to be always a cop until he nearly beat a black man to death and lost his badge. When he gets another chance via a vintage friend at the National Transportation Safety Board, he drives a convertible by using a snowstorm with the top down (he suffers from claustrophobia) to view the freight car. He finds the scene to learn that he will suffer from Northern Union's own security officer, Nell Priest, a black woman who already knows Tyler's history.Meanwhile, Umberto Alvarez, the train wrecker, is systematically working his way towards his ultimate wreck, Northern's F.A.S.T. teach due to make its maiden run from NY to Washington, D.C. Alvarez lost his wife and children when their car stalled between your gates at a crossing and were crushed by one of Northern's trains. Although Northern Union was cleared of most responsibility and Alvarez's wife was found negligent, he doesn't think that's so.As Peter Tyler's investigation proceeds, he commences to come quickly to the same conclusion. Closing in on Alvarez, he tries to interview the crossing guard who was simply on duty your day the wreck occurred. On arriving at the man's apartment, he finds the man bludgeoned to death--with the same stick to which Tyler beat the black man all that point ago. It's time to get paranoid. Who at Northern is covering up and what role does Nell play in all this As always in a Ridley Pearson thriller, the action doesn't stop until the final page. --Otto Penzler
