Publisher's Synopsis
Philadelphia FBI Agent Les Cody has a new assignment. He's been told to 'track' down, literally, a serial freight train bomber. In the middle of the Great Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey, tiny, psychotic, deformed, Maxwell Teirson lives to destroy trains. When his bombs disrupt vital deliveries to the casino business in Atlantic City, the mayor, with a 'chip' on his shoulder, cites interstate commerce and calls for the FBI to step in. This will be Les' first case in 6 years. All that time at a desk having been wounded 'on the job' in a shootout with an assassin. What he doesn't know going in is that this case may well lead to his death. Forces in the Bureau are not all they seem. Our tale uncovers connections to Max, his bombs, and many other mysteries. Cody warms to the case with the help of his close confidant and forensic genius across the hall. Ned Newsome is a gunshot vic like Cody. In his chair he shouts lightheartedly, "Hey, life's just a roll full of cherries." Ned will be rolling his chair the rest of his life. Both his legs are gone at the hips. A local news helicopter hovers over Max's latest destruction. They shoot a close-up of a tall angry officer waving them off with his parka. In a dank apartment a dangerous, embedded man is watching that news program. He is a man who has been waiting to find Cody for six years. For he is the brother-in-law of the man Les killed in the sidewalk shootout in the city. This man married his sister. His sister who slit her wrists that night, mourning for her lost husband. He can finally vow revenge for his dead sister. The Regional Director of the Philly FBI office is Bob Delano, a man of many tastes. He has a tendency to overdo it. Two of the things he is presently overdoing are first, his lust for his present little bimbo and the tens of thousands she wastes. Second, and more harmful to his well being, is his hatred for hi
