When railwayman Jim Stringer is assigned to drive holidaymakers to the seaside resort of Blackpool in the hot summer of 1905, he thinks he's struck lucky. But his dreams of beer and pretty women soon fall away - when his high-speed train meets a huge millstone on the line. In the months that follow as he hunts for the saboteur, Jim is drawn into a beguiling but dangerous world of eccentrics, conmen and cowards. From ventriloquists to funfair salesmen, ticket clerks to dandies, everyone is a suspect in this captivating adventure.
- ISBN10 0156030691
- ISBN13 9780156030694
- Publish Date 1 July 2007 (first published 19 August 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 360
- Language English