On a Monday morning in October, brilliant inventor Carl Collingwood and his 20-year-old son, Bruce, board a Diesel-powered commuter train to New York City at its northern-most point at Wassaic, New York. This seemingly innocent event sets in motion a series of events that alter the lives of a host of characters, as events unfold in New York, Washington D.C. and all the way to Bermuda.
Carl has developed the "personal aircraft" -- a vertical take-off and landing fixed-wing airplane -- that the military desperately needs. But rival Mike Snead, CEO of a multi-national corporation, is worried this could divert the healthy flow of government dollars away from his company. When Carl needed capital to continue development, he took Mike's bait and mortgaged his intellectual property. When Carl inadvertently misses a payment, Mike unleashes his plan to grab the rights to Carls invention. When he succeeds in civil court, Carl is left despondent and bereft.
A desperate Carl and Bruce hijack the train, letting all the passengers off except Mike. Carl's plan is to deliver Mike to Washington, D.C., to testify before a Congressional Committee on corporate corruption. But how can a commuter train on a line that dead-ends in Manhattans Grand Central Station make this trip?
The Commuter Train is a fast-paced thriller that unfolds in tight bursts, documented as a breaking news story by Juli Gables, an energetic, but inexperienced TV journalist. Gables tries desperately to find the truth about Sneads takeover of the Collingwoods invention, even after being fired for placing her employer in legal jeopardy by broadcasting her suspicions of Snead. This leads Gables to Bermuda in pursuit of a paper trail of Sneads criminal activity.
The tale is told through a mix of well-rounded and compelling characters from the neophyte TV news crew, Juli, and her cameraman, George; the action-oriented F.B.I. agent, David Price, who believes hes judge and jury; to CEO Mike Snead, whose vocation is greed and avocation is play acting. Asked if what he did to the Collingwoods is fair, Snead reveals what we all suspect about the nature of big business: When you ask a businessman whether what he does is fair, he doesnt really understand the question Fairness has nothing to do with the rules of the game, so it is simply not an issue.
Carl and Bruce face criminal charges and as their trial surges forward, readers experience one surprise turn after another, until events come to a thrilling and unexpected climax.
Will the truth be finally revealed, and justice served, as a consequence of the actions set in motion on that fateful Monday morning on a Commuter Train?
The author practices patent law in White Plains, NY, and is an inventor himself, having patented numerous advances in vertical take-off and landing aircraft. He is also a children's book author, having penned a series of books about a young teen boy-inventor. The series is called "Jason and the Detectives."
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