The Taking of Pelham One Two Three by John Godey is $1.99 at Amazon US. I missed this last time it was on sale.
The 1970's film version is excellent if you haven't seen it. It's also where Quentin Tarantino 'borrowed' the idea of using colors as code names for Reservoir Dogs.
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A New York subway train is taken hostage in this “high-voltage thriller with the kick of a third rail” (The Washington Post).
After a New York City train leaves the Pelham station at 1:23 p.m., four armed men take control of it—along with seventeen passengers. Their demands are simple: deliver one million dollars, or the hostages will be killed one by one. Fast-paced and intensely psychological, this novel tells the story from the point of view of each of the hijackers—revealing each man’s motivations, desperations, and fatal flaws.
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