Two Trains Running by Andrew Vachss -- I'm still trying to figure what this book was about. It started as a reasonably interesting story about a small town crime boss under pressure from Mafia outsiders. The local boss was an interesting character -- a wheel chair bound polio victim having a lifelong incestuous affair with his sister. The outsiders are led by a violent, lower tier Mafia member sent from Chicago. Good potential.
By the time you get to the end, though, Vachss has introduced several local teenage gangs, some mysterious government agents (one of whom is nuts), the Klan, a gay neo-Nazi, an underground nascent black power group (including an old man who ran with Marcus Garvey) and a never identified group of gun runners. An these are just he primary plots.
Ultimately, even though the book is well written, there's two much confusions to make this a high-ranking novel.
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