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Also by Jim Lehrer:

Top Down, October 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Tension City, September 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
Super, April 2010
Hardcover
Oh, Johnny, April 2009
Hardcover
Mack to the Rescue, June 2008
Hardcover
Eureka, October 2007
Hardcover
The Phony Marine, November 2006
Hardcover

SUPER
By: Jim Lehrer

When celebrities road the rails...

Random House
April 2010
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Featuring: Otto Wheeler; Darwin Rinehart; Clark Gable
224 pages
ISBN: 1400067634
EAN: 9781400067633
Hardcover
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Fiction Family Life

In the tradition of Murder on the Orient Express, Jim Lehrer brings together a cast of characters as fascinating as the historic train that will carry them from Chicago to Los Angeles. In its heyday, the Santa Fe railroad’s famous Super Chief was so replete with wealth and celebrity that it became known as “The Train of the Stars.” And so we find it in April of 1956, embarking from the Windy City for its trip across the Plains to the West Coast. 
   
Climbing aboard is an amazing spectrum of passengers. There’s Darwin Rinehart, a once great Hollywood producer whose most recent movie was a total flop and who now faces bankruptcy and shame. In a dark recess of a train car hides a mysterious, disheveled, sickly man who has not paid for a ticket, smuggled inside by an unscrupulous porter. Millionaire Otto Wheeler arrives in a wheelchair; deathly ill, he knows that this will be his last trip on the great train. Clark Gable causes a stir when he steps aboard, and though he’s ridden these rails for years, indulging in booze and women with equal fervor, those around him sense that this time, something is different. And finally there’s former President Harry Truman, distinguished, congenial, and constantly accompanied, for his protection, by a railroad detective.
 
    As the Super Chief pulls out of Dearborn Station, the passengers—famous and infamous, anonymous and enigmatic—can’t possibly imagine what lies ahead. For as the train gains speed, a series of deadly events unfolds.
   
Full of remarkable detail and passion for a lost world of opulence and all its intrigue and delights, Jim Lehrer’s Super spins a complex web of suspense. The twists and turns will keep readers turning the pages at top speed to finish one of the most captivating stories of Lehrer’s prolific career.

Media Buzz

Charlie Rose - May 5, 2010
Diane Rehm Show - NPR - April 20, 2010