The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By - Georges Simenon & Siân Reynolds

The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By

By Georges Simenon & Siân Reynolds

  • Release Date: 2017-10-17
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
4 Score: 4 (From 10 Ratings)

Book Synopsis

“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré

In this Georges Simenon classic, a Dutch clerk flees to Paris with his crooked boss’s money and meets the woman behind the man


“A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion . . . disturbed him whenever he saw a train go by, a night train especially, its blinds drawn down on the mystery of its passengers.”

Kees Popinga is a respectable Dutch citizen and family man—until the day he discovers his boss has bankrupted the shipping firm he works for, and something snaps. Kees used to watch the trains go by on their way to exciting destinations. Now, on some dark impulse, he boards one at random, and begins a new life of recklessness and violence. The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By is a chilling portrayal of a man who breaks from society and goes on the run asks who we are, and what we are capable of.

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