With a Vengeance

by Riley Sager

This train that can hold dozens, even hundreds, is occupied by only eight people. Seven are alive. One is dead.

Those others, by the way, are the six people aboard this train at her invitation. One that, had they known who was doing the inviting, all would have declined.

Now here they are—five guests, one hostess, her accomplice, and a corpse.

Sal Lawrence, Car 12, Room A Lt. Col. Jack Lapsford, Car 12, Room B Kenneth Wentworth, Car 12, Room C Herb Pulaski, Car 13, Room A Edith Gerhardt, Car 13, Room B Judd Dodge, Car 13, Room C

Which is why she and Seamus occupy Rooms A and B in the train’s eleventh car, leaving the third room there vacant.

Revenge is fleeting. Vengeance lasts a lifetime.