Two Trains Running
- ISBN-10
- 1400079381
- ISBN-13
- 9781400079384
- Series
- Two Trains Running
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 447
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
- Author
- Andrew Vachss
Description
The time, 1959 America. The place-a small, entirely corrupt Midwestern burg named Locke City, currently owned top to bottom by homegrown Royal Beaumont. Crippled by a childhood disease, Royal rules from a wheelchair-throne; few, though, have ever doubtedt
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