The war is over for railroad bull Hook Runyon, or so at least he thinks, until he is ordered to transport a newly arrived ragtag band of Jewish orphans from the Fohrenwald Displaced Per—sons Cam
The war is over for railroad bull Hook Runyon, or so at least he thinks, until he is ordered to transport a newly arrived ragtag band of Jewish orphans from the Fohrenwald Displaced Per—sons Camp in Germany to their new home. The assignment comes with unique perils, but the stakes grow higher when Hook learns who their fellow passengers will be: hundreds of Nazi prisoners of war, harden men with nothing to lose. He faces a train trip like no other, a revelatory journey of unspeakable truths, of innocence betrayed, and of dark secrets revealed. But then, it is in just such a milieu of smoke and shadow that Hook most often prevails.