Sand On The Rails

Thirty hours! Not a minute more. That’s how long a contingent of medics and Delta Force personnel have to reach the Andes Mountains where natural disaster has struck. Thousands of locals are without water, food, or medicine. The men are in a race against both time and the Sendero Luminoso Narco terrorists who are on the prowl. In a region of the world where everything is dilapidated and crumbling, all hope rests on the only piece of machinery that still works: an old Mallard steam engine from the mining museum. An old stubborn Brit has kept this old lady in one piece. He knew the steam engine would, one day, be needed again…. Now the day has come. The old man, his young illiterate apprentice, and the steam engine have to break a speed record to reach the Andes on time in an old rail line that has not been maintained for decades and is littered with rusting wrecks, boulders, barricades…and where the old man’s age might be his worst enemy.Renaud, Philippe is the author of 'Sand On The Rails' with ISBN 9781424136070 and ISBN 1424136075.