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...NEVER GET BACK by Darryl Brock; Crown; 424 pages...
Author Darryl Brock starts off with an oboe passage. His hero, Sam Fowler, a San Francisco newspaperman in his early 30s, is gloomy from a bad divorce and muzzy from a slight drinking problem. He has flown to Cleveland to bury his father, who died there alone, and has decided to meander back home on an Amtrak train. Somewhere in northern Ohio, the train rolls to an unscheduled stop on a siding, and Fowler steps off into the summer heat to clear his head. When he turns, the 20th century Amtrak diesel has vanished, and a woodburning steam train -- what...
...Zoyd Wheeler, a part-time keyboard player, handyman and marijuana farmer. Along with his teenage daughter Prairie, Zoyd still mourns the departure and later disappearance of his ex-wife Frenesi, a onetime '60s radical who was seduced into becoming a Government informer by a notoriously malevolent federal prosecutor named Brock Vond. He has apparently not finished hounding the Wheelers and others. As one observer notes, "Nobody knows just what's goin' on, except there's a nut case leading a heavily armed strike force loose in California...
...Brock Adams, (D-Wash.), said Bush's promise of a veto was "unconscionable" and would "cause enormous additional suffering" for poor victims of rape or incest...
Harvard defeated the Big Re, 7-6, at Ohiri Field when Rich van den Brock scored the winning goal with eight seconds left in the game...