Train

Dexter is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. His spare and menacing style, quirky characters, bizarre humor, and capturing of place are all on display here. This book involves racism, golf, a caddie named “Train”, a police Sergeant obsessed with control, failed land deals, a rich widow(and......more

Manchen Büchern würde man eher gerecht, wenn man auf Klassifizierungen verzichtete. Dann hätte man es bspw. einfach mit einem „Roman“ zu tun, nicht mit einem „Krimi“. Das Label nämlich führt in die Irre. Pete Dexter erzählt in seinem Neo-Noir-Thriller TRAIN (2003/Dt. 2006) von zwei Schwarzen, die si......more

Better and more layered than I expected. When I read the jacket, I pictured what the book would be about, and that would've made a decent story, too. But Dexter took it places I never expected. Made me want to read more Dexter.......more

OK, I'm officially a Pete Dexter fan. This is the first book of his that I read, and I enjoyed it very much. Man, he's a great writer! And what a sense of humor! I laughed out loud several times, for instance at this: "People he’d known before the war, on the other hand, said he’d changed, but he cou......more

Whenever you think you've got a handle on the plot, Dexter spins it in an unexpected direction. Violent, sometimes brutal, sometimes darkly comic, "Train" is an absorbing story with fascinating, dangerous characters. (I don't think I'll ever forget what happened on the boat. I read those passages wi......more