Paul and his crew of amateur Train Robbers and assault on Amtrak's night owl with its 35 million cargo represents their one last chance for the good life. But once aboard, the feloness group finds itself up against unexpected competition. For the train and it's hundreds of passengers have already fallen into the brutal clutches of international terrorists, cold blooded assassins possessing the means to bring out an ecological holocaust, willing to sacrifice thousands of innocent lives to further their calls. As the night out Thunders deep into the Canadian rockies, Maxwell and his criminal band must somehow transform the hostages into makeshift commandos. The next scheduled stop is a disaster. Electrifying and compelling it's a rare gem of a novel tense enrich and characterization and suspense get ready to ride the rails to high adventure.