The Dining Car

In a journey that will change his life, former college football player Jack Marshall enlists as bartender and personal valet to legendary food writer and social critic Horace Button, who travels the country by private railroad car. Winner of the 2017 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award for Popular Fiction, the 2017 San Diego Book Award Gold Medal for Contemporary Fiction, and the 2017 Readers' Favorite Book Award Silver Medal for Literary Fiction, this exuberant novel about service, serendipity, and second chances was named a Booklife "Book to Watch" in the February 27, 2017 issue of Publishers Weekly.

"Peterson's second book is like a meal prepared by a top-tier chef: great individual ingredients coming together to form something even better ... Peterson services up his story in delicious form." --Publishers Weekly

"Delivers nothing less than a Falstaffian feast of fun ... Prepare also to be surprised by the masterful prose offered up here by the author, whose pacing, descriptions, dialogue and plotting are seamlessly and effortlessly impeccable, allowing one to fully concentrate his attention upon the fine, if most eccentric, gourmet dining experience of a lifetime." --Joel R. Dennstedt, ReadersFavorite.com

"A glimpse into a life we all dream about, it's also an entertaining, engaging read with a deft touch of humor." --Rick Browne, host of PBS' "Barbecue America" and author of 17 books on cooking, travel, restaurants, and the good life

"An unforgettable tale ... The voice of Horace Button will long linger in the ear of its readers." --William Ferris, author of The South in Color: A Visual Journal

"Nobody leaves hungry." --The Sacramento Bee

"A damn fine novel." --Thomas Shess, San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles