Talk:The Amtrak Wars
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Addition - May 18th, 2006 The "rumours" mentioned above weren't unsubstantiated. I used to participate in the Authors forums on his website before they were taken down and I was an active participant in the thread in which the author himself revealed the "work in progress" on Book 7, which was, indeed, to be titled, "Ghost Rider". The "Ghost Rider" of the title was the central figure of the Amtrak Wars books, Steve Brickman, who, contrary to appearances at the end of book 6, was not actually killed and had, in fact, been taken back by the First Family and "reprogrammed".
After this snippet was posted, it was the cause of much excitement and many follow-up questions over a period of a year or so about, "when will the book be published?" The author himself would continually say that he was working on it, but it never appeared to lead anywhere. I eventually emailed the publishers a direct question and, much to my amazement, received a reply from Patrick Tilley himself in which, sadly, he confirmed that the book just wasn't going to happen and, I quote, "the war is over..."
The delay and long absence from writing, according to the author himself, was caused mostly by the conflict in the Balkans and the authors horror at the sorts of ethnic cleansing and infighting going on that had all too many parallels to the works of fiction he was engaged in writing. (posted on main article by User:81.137.252.144) Ben W Bell talk 13:08, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
