PEARLAND, Texas, July 11, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Sean is a high school junior who's concerned with keeping his grades up and his car running. When his mother leaves to nurse his sick grandfather, he's left at home with his alcoholic stepfather, Al, leaving him free to follow a mysterious hobo who comes to his house looking for help. In Robert F. McCutcheon's The Last Train Rider (now available through 1stBooks), Sean finds himself going from high school student to a young man on a dangerous mission to seek out a helpful stranger and find a serial killer.
Will Rider, a good-hearted homeless man, approaches Sean at his home, offering work for food. This hobo tells him all about riding the train rails and the tough life of a wanderer. With a stepfather who's near the edge of destruction, Sean leaves, looking for Will. Will left his diary with Sean, describing the evil homeless man riding the country's rail system.
Red Dragon is extremely dangerous. Will is searching for Red Dragon while Sean searches for Will. Sean not only learns first-hand the life of the people who ride the rails, but catches up to a killer in the process.
With a variety of characters modeled after real-life criminals the author has dealt with in his 30-year career as a police officer criminal investigator, The Last Train Rider is an accurate look at train rail crime and vagabond life. The author combines the mind of violent criminal with the mobility of today's rail service to create an eerily suspenseful, frightening book that will have the readers enveloped from the first pages.
McCutcheon served eight years on the Lampasas Police force, where he became a criminal investigator, and 23 years with now the BNSF railway. He is currently a Senior Special Agent I with the railway. He graduated from Central Texas College with an associate's degree in law enforcement and also attended the American Technological University with a major in criminal justice. With first hand experience with the behavior of vicious criminals, he has woven his experiences into fiction to create his first novel.
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