Transition
It begins on a train, the highest train in the world, between China and Tibet. It begins with a man in a cheap brown business suit walking from one swaying carriage to another, his gait a little unsteady as he holds a small oxygen cylinder in one hand and an automatic handgun in the other. He...
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It begins on a train, the highest train in the world, between China and Tibet. It begins with a man in a cheap brown business suit walking from one swaying carriage to another, his gait a little unsteady as he holds a small oxygen cylinder in one hand and an automatic handgun in the other. He steps onto the sliding metal plates that separate the carriages, the corrugated collar linking the passenger cars flexing and wheezing around him like a gigantic version of the ribbed tube connecting the oxygen cylinder and the transparent mask round his nose and mouth. Inside the mask, he finds himself smiling nervously.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780316731072 (0316731072)
Publish date: 03-09-2009
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Pages no: 404
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Cultural,
Science,
Technology,
Space,
Speculative Fiction,
Thriller,
International
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