Resumo de Trainman - P.T. Deutermann

Keeler has only one motive in life ? the destruction of railroad network across the bridges over Mississippi. That?s the only way he can avenge the horrible extermination of his family at a railway crossing and the humiliating lawsuits that followed. He has all six bridges on his list and starts working his way gradually into blowing them up one by one.

The FBI is tipped over by his first attack and sets up an investigation in its huffy-puffy bureaucratic manner with Hush Hanson in charge and Special Agent Carolyn Lang (known as Razor Pants) as his assistant. Carolyn?s past record demonstrates that whoever she works with is somehow forced into either early retirement or ends up being replaced by her. Hush exercises care in dealing with her but finds it hard to overlook her immense female appeal. He relents a bit only to find himself framed in the end. He loses the little trust that he had developed in her, which she manages to gain back when she confesses her faults and also lets him in on the secret of how their boss had been using her. They team up again ? unofficially this time ? to lay their hands on their trainman.

Meanwhile, Keeler ? who is actually the Chief of the Corps of Engineers ? is busy avenging himself thoroughly and diligently. His singular attack on four bridges leaves FBI messed up with hypotheses and plans. Agent Lang?s strong hunch that it could be a single-man operation as well as Hanson?s compliance with this theory does not find much favor with the headquarters which feels more comfortable believing in a terrorist-group operation. Lang and Hanson, however, stick to their idea and in a shocking discovery hit upon Keeler?s name ? their trainman!

At the same time, in a fateful turn of events, Colonel Mehle is ready to cheat, lie or even kill in order to have some unstable nuclear weapons transported secretly and safely across the river. He takes every law in his hand, refuses to succumb to all revolts against him and comes to be known as Colonel Goddamn! With the number of bridges across Mississippi on a steady decline ? courtesy Trainman ? he has no choice but to take the armored train across Vicksburg bridge, which turns out to be Keeler?s next bait.

On the investigative end, Hush and Carolyn ? now inseparable ? manage to locate Keeler?s house and unravel his strong motive for the attacks. He succeeds in evading them once more with yet another mind-boggling plan. Bruised and exhausted, Hush and Carolyn continue after him and true to what Hush suspected, Keeler prepares to strike the Vicksburg bridge on a train this time, which happens to be none other than the one which Colonel Mehle is madly controlling.

Hanson?s strong intuition about Keeler being on this very army train which is defying all regulations turns out to be correct when he finds himself face-to-face with his trainman, not on, but under the train! Colonel Mehle?s subordinate Major Matthews and the team of sergeants decide it?s high time to get into a fisty scuffle with the Colonel if that?s what it would take to stop the train. Matthews manages to emergency-stop the train just when Keeler is about to start his evil work once more.

Hush and Carolyn face Keeler once again who shoots at Carolyn. An infuriated Hush does not lose the next opportunity to blow Keeler?s face off right away. Carolyn miraculously survives despite being seriously injured while Hush emerges as a great hero for putting an end to the trainman.

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