A customs agent must track down a killer on a train barreling across the Texas border into Mexico . . .
When a train leaves Laredo en route to Mexico City, the trip turns terrifying as one passenger after another falls victim to murder. Will anyone make it to their destination alive?
Fortunately, Hugh Rennert—US Customs agent and amateur detective—is on board, and his investigation will proceed full steam ahead . . .
“You won’t go wrong in giving Todd Downing a try.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
Todd Downing, Oklahoma’s first successful writer of detective novels, was born at Atoka, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), in 1902. His paternal grandmother, Millissa Armstrong, part of the 1830 Choctaw migration from Mississippi, was George T. Downing’s second wife. Their son, Samuel, Todd’s father, born in the Choctaw Nation in 1872, served in Troop M of the Rough Riders, and married Maude Miller in 1899.