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Title: Two Trains Running
Author: Andrew Vachss
Narrator: David Joe Wirth
Format: Abridged
Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-16-05
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Now his domain is being threatened by an invading crime syndicate. But in a town where crime and politics are virtually indivisible, there are other players awaiting their turn onstage.
Beaumont imports a hired killer, Walker Dett, a master tactician whose trademark is wholesale destruction.
In a stunning departure from his usual territory, Andrew Vachss gives us a masterful novel that is also an epic story of postwar America. A searing portrait of corruption in a small town, this is Vachss's most ambitious, innovative, and explosive work yet.
Critic Reviews:
"Ambitious and often entertainingly pulpy 'Two Trains Running' also has long stretches of back-story-laden dialogue and cringe-inducing romantic melodrama." (The New York Times Book Review)
"Vachss plows a field famously sowed by Dashiell Hammett and reaps his own kind of red harvest....Dark, violent, blood-drenched, page-turning." (Kirkus Reviews)
Members Reviews:
Incredibly Rich.
Iâm handling this book out like a pamphlet to people I meet - Irish-Americans (if they have Big City Machine Politics in their family heritage), African-Americans (met this local Brooklyn real estate mover and shaker outside a theatre setting up a play on Emmet Till. He had a Marcus Garvey pin on. I first learned about both Emmet Till and Garvey from reading this book.), even a guy with root s in Gary, Indiana, whose grand-father worked in the prison that held John Dillinger when he made his infamous gun-carved-from-a-piece-of-soap successful escape . . .
Iâm handing it out because I need help figuring it out. Such a wealth of information, and so relevant for how politics are formed in the worldâs currently mightiest Empire.
Exceptional
Andrew is an exceptional writer and "Two Trains Running" stands out is a field of great work. The characters are rich and complex. It is an exceptional period piece and while reading it, it felt like I was in 1959. It is at the same a mystery, crime fiction, a period piece and a love story. He captures racial and political tension in a very realistic way. He writes heroes, villains, abusers and abused in a wa y that I felt I knew them, some I was happy to, others I wished I had never met. Vachss continues his important, ever present message through his writing. It is rare that you can read such a good back and learn at the same time. Truth through fiction.
Multilayered & Full of Meaning
I love the Burke series, but when Andrew Vachss decides to step out into new arenas, I am even more entranced.
Two Trains Running is set in 1959, when every social faction in America geared up to take control of the 1960 presidential election. Who will win, and what will each group draw the line at how far it will go to win? Vachss sets readers the task of putting together the evidence. This book reads better than any Sherlock Holmes (or CSI) plot, because Vachss gives readers all the information to come to their own conclusion.
The story is strongly drawn, and the sense of place is astonishingly three-dimensional. Locke City is a crossroads of low-down activity, disguised as a rundown industrial river town. The characters all have secrets, but we tease those out only by keeping our eyes and ears open, since the omnicient third-person narrative so common to mystery and suspense writing is laid aside here.
