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"You can't help but be swept up."
 - Clive Cussler

"Not since Agatha Christie sent her characters hurtling along the rails toward Murder on the Orient Express has a fictional train ride been as exciting as Warren Adler's tale of intrigue."
 - King Features Syndicate

"Engrossing, gripping, absorbing… written by a superb storyteller. (Adler's pen uses brisk, descriptive strokes that are enviable and masterful.)"
 - West Coast Review of Books

"Exciting."
 - London Daily Telegraph

"Highly recommended."
 - Library Journal

"Adler… is a master at weaving subplots into one big plausible plot."
 - Baltimore News-American

"A tale packed stiff with intrigue, violence and surprise."
 - Publishers Weekly

"Engrossing adventure."
 - Kansas City Star

"An excellent book."
 - Kansas City Jewish Chronicle

"Warren Adler qualifies as a successor to Agatha Christie."
 - Indianapolis News

"A fine escapist thriller… Adler shows a great facility for recreating the Siberian landscape and making us believe it."
 - Denver Post

"Builds suspense carefully and on several levels… well worth reading."
 - Jacksonville Times-Union

"This tale of nuclear intrigue, brutal violence and poignant romance will grab you tight at the outset, hold you securely through page after page, and set you down with a dramatic thump at the end."
 - Cleveland Press

"Sharply-drawn characters… An exciting story of intrigue."
 - Springfield, Missouri News and Leader

"The author… succeeds in bringing that strange world to life."
 - Surrey Advertiser, Surrey, England

"Adler keeps things moving smoothly, fleshes out the main characters and brings things to an exciting conclusion."
 - Milwaukee Journal

"Adler has a marvelous eye for detail… a cracking good tale."
 - The Oregonian

"Warren Adler… has captured the glamour of the train ride across Siberia brilliantly."
 - Erie Times

"Author Warren Adler should be congratulated, not only for his story, but also for his attention to detail about the train."
 - Times-Picayune

The Enterprise, Riverside, CA
by Bill Olmsted

In literature, as in travel, there are good trips and bad. These novels obey the truism.

Relying on the latest, much overworked, theory in potboiling-that the more preposterous the story the wider the readership - Cleary and Adler offer contrasting ways of getting from one place to another by the least practical means.

Adler borrows mainly from Agatha Christie. Set in contemporary times, he prods his hero from relative haven under the wing of a rather Khrushchevian Soviet boss at the Kremlin across the vastness of Russia and Siberia to Japan by train, the notorious if (as recent tourists have found) almost excruciatingly un-luxurious vehicle of Adler's title. While the journey is relatively continuous (83 scheduled stops), it's duration-5,778 miles and six-plus days-provides the stage with what action there is.

In brief, Adler centers his adventure around the aforementioned Soviet leader, who is suffering from leukemia, which, conveniently, his country's medicos are unable to treat. Enter American whiz Alex Cousins, who manages to provide at least temporary relief. But the patient, fearing that he may not last a whole lot longer and wanting to go out with a bang (literal, aimed at the "Chinks") intends to keep his healer on-call, without antagonizing Washington by applying recognizable duress. Hence the long train ride that ostensibly will give Cousins a chance to revisit his ancestral Siberian stamping-grounds (another convenience, second of many), en route home.

To keep our hero happy, a luscious and classy citizenne is provided as his berth-mate for the trip, and, as has often been noted, the clickity-clack of the railroad tracks provides perfect rhythm for passing the time in bed, where, indeed, an inordinate amount of Cousins' (and our) time crawls by.
In addition to amour and Armageddon, Adler injects a series of wholly unrelated subplots, one of which-involving an old Soviet soldier's revenge - and added to Adler's sound talent for history, saves the book from being dreadful.

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