Bullet Train

By Joseph Rance, Arei Kato, arei rance, joseph & kato, et al.

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068803702X
• ISBN13: 9780688037024
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Morrow
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Suspense on a train.....

On a hot midsummer morning, 1500 passengers settle back intheir seats in holiday mood as the sleep, silver-gray Hikari 109 slides out of Tokoyo Central Station. The Hikari 109 belongs to a fleet of Japanese Bullet Trains, the fastest in the world, and at top speed travels 130 miles an hour.So what happens if someone plants a bomb in it that will go off if the train goes below 50 miles per hour? If a ransom of 5 million dollars isn't paid, 1500 people are about to find out what will happen. Illustrated with a map and a diagram of train.

One of the best train thrillers ever!

Absolutely brilliant and wild! A madman places a bomb on a Japanese bullet train, the Hikari 109 from Tokyo to Hakata which goes off if the train goes below 50 mph. Sounds familiar? Well, this was written in the mid 1970s and one would say provided the idea for the movies Speed and Speed 2: Cruise Control. Who can get to the bomb in time? Along the way are superb shocks, twists, double-crosses and even an earthquake which threaten to detonate the bomb in a tunnel . . .! Read this one if you can get hold of it!