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David Baldacci is known for his murder mysteries, which have earned him a well-deserved reputation and a huge audience. The Christmas Train is a significant departure from his more accustomed genre.
Tom Langdon is a journalist, currently living in Washington, D.C., who has embarked on a cross-country train trip to meet his putative girl friend in Los Angeles. Langdon carries too much extra baggage even for a train's baggage car. He cannot fly inside the U.S. due to a blow-up with a TSA agent, resulting in community service and a two-year ban from all commercial flights. His actions did earn him the cheers of the other passengers. He used to cover wars and conflicts across the world and won a couple of Pulitzers, but he is now writing fluff pieces for domestic publications, such as The Ladies Home Journal. Langdon has been conducting a bicoastal affair with Leila Gibson, a failed actress who has become rich and famous doing voice-overs for cartoons. He still occasionally thinks of Eleanor, a fellow journalist who left him suddenly in Tel Aviv. He has unresolved issues with his father who was kin to Mark Twain. Now, per his father's request, he wants to duplicate Twain's transcontinental train trip and write a story. And, there is too much more to go into here. Everyone on the train, in the best tradition of Christmas stories, is in search of something which will soothe their troubled souls and bring peace to them in this most magical of seasons, the time when even the animals are said to bow down and pray at midnight.