Lionel Walk, better known as Train, is a young black caddy at an elite Los Angeles golf course, where he comes to know a police detective he calls 'The Mile-Away Man'. Keeping his head down, he navigates his way between the careless brutality of the other caddies.Norah Still is unwillingly at the centre of the criminal investigation, as the only survivor of an attempted boat hijacking gone violently wrong. Seargent Miller Packer - Train's 'Mile-Away Man' is in charge of the case and, as he quietly manages the crime scene, he finds himself drawn to the beautiful widow.Miller's interest in Norah and Train soon moves beyond his professional obligations. He tries to shield Norah from the events on the boat, fighting her need to hold on to the past. He becomes a kind of manager as Train competes as a golfer on a lucrative underground gambling circuit. Miller's oddly personal concern binds the three of them together in an uneasy triangle.Pete Dexter's remarkable new novel brings life to the most violent and tender impulses of his characters as they struggle to come to terms with the difference between a gift and a passion, between their abilities and their desires.
Title: Train
Author: Pete Dexter
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Year: 2004
Number of pages: 280
ISBN: 9780434012473
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