The Railrunner by Jacob Green takes readers beneath the surface of the American railroad system and into a hidden world of loyalty, violence, family secrets, and inherited power. Here’s why this Reno-set crime noir stands apart.

Today my son walked out of school. In Reno. He’s in middle school, and today there was a student walkout in protest of ICE. Whether you agree with that or not isn’t really the point of this post—but I’ll be honest, it made me stop and think more than I expected it to. Last night, he came to me nervous. Not about getting in trouble, not about missing class, but about what it meant. He told me he had never seen a protest in real life before. He didn’t know if it would be peacef