The Commuter - Softcover

Oster, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786755970 ISBN 13: 9780786755974

Publisher: Pinder Lane & Garon-Brooke Associates, Ltd., 2014

Synopsis

It seemed an innocent enough idea. After Barnaby Gilbert got laid off with a nice severance, his boss suggested he take up a new hobby to fill up his free time. On his regular commuter train, Barnaby got an idea what that hobby would be. He decided to satisfy a curiosity he’d long had. An avid birder, he began tracking some regular passengers — people he’d always wondered about — to see where they went and what they did. In following a Chinese man, a schoolgirl, and a sexy woman, he used the same techniques he had to add hawks and herons to his life list. But in this quirky, tongue-in-cheek thriller, he found out pretty fast that humans were a much more dangerous species.

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Review:

   "A thriller with both a heart and a comic streak, THE COMMUTER takes an ordinary question--who are those people across from you on the train?--and turns it into the extraordinary, taking the reader on a thrilling ride, filled with people who with opposing motives, secrets, and wanton desires."
   "This is a book you'll want to read in one sitting."
 -- Maggie Barbieri, author of "Final Exam" and other Murder 101 crime novels and "Once Upon a Lie," a Maeve Conlon novel.: 

  "The Commuter was definitely a fun book to read...I kept turning those pages with delightful expectations. In short, I was very impressed with the storyline and the quick pacing of the plot. If I have any complaint, it is with the brevity of the story. I would have enjoyed the book more if it had been twice as long with much more detail.
   If you enjoy quick fiction reads, this book is for you. It is sort of a comedy of errors and sort of an extended stakeout. The Commuter is definitely a quality character study without ever being verbose."   --Floyd M. Orr, PODBRAM Book Reviews

4-stars. Oster starts the novel with a captivating beginning: "But on that fateful Friday just before things began to unravel, all seemed normal, even calm." The tone of suspense carries throughout the story, with Gilbert finding himself in even more unusual settings (among them a Chinese counterfeit business and a house of prostitution)....The novel is overall a fun read for those interested in protagonists who find themselves in strange circumstances. -- IndieReader

About this edition

• Publisher: Pinder Lane & Garon-Brooke Associates, Ltd.
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0786755970
• ISBN 13: 9780786755974
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252