Copyright © 2014 Estate of Les Plesko
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Plesko, Les.
No stopping train : a novel / Les Plesko.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Triangles (Interpersonal relations)—Fiction. 2. Betrayal—Fiction. 3. Hungary—History--Revolution, 1956—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3566.L45N6 2014
813’.54—dc23
2014022424
ISBN 978-1-61902-418-2
Cover design by Matt Dorfman
Interior design by Neuwirth & Associates, Inc.
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