The Boy on the Train
by Martin Goodman
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Pub Date Oct 07 2025 | Archive Date Aug 01 2025
Barbican Press | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles
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Description
Silently, digitally, a boy takes apart your family.
Tom's a regular teenager – sullen, anxious, super-smart, feeling safe within his bedroom and wedded to his screen.
On a packed train, a London commodities trader gets under his skin.
The trader's got a fine wife, two kids, a yappy dog, big house, annual bonus. Tom hacks him. The trader's hardware becomes stuffed with dangerous, damaging images. Call it collateral damage.
Hacking is what Tom does. He's got control of the keyboards of key players in the fossil fuel industry. If he doesn't bring down the grid, who will?
Roads and trainlines lead the main players to a violent confrontation in the brutalist surrounds of London's Barbican Centre. Government agents work to prevent a global blackout. Tom's set to save the planet.
Who will win?
Marketing Plan
Writing Thrillers the Patricia Highsmith Way: A podcast / feature / festival program: As a professor of creative writing, Martin Goodman was obsessed by Patricia Highsmith. Topics he will cover in public appearances/interviews:
How did she make her books so compelling? Year after year her crime thrillers were his set texts, he and his students burrow through them to find the secrets of her success.
What novel would a 21st century Patricia Highsmith write? Martin Goodman tried to work that out by putting some of her writing secrets into practice. Like Tom Ripley in Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley, his The Boy on the Train has a Tom who is an identity thief with a troubled backstory.
Martin leads a journey to appreciate what made Ripley click, and how the tricks spun by Patricia Highmith’s mind can be made to work toda
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781917352079 |
| PRICE | $18.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 320 |
