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Title: Lowland Rider
Author: Chet Williamson
Narrator: Chet Williamson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-16-16
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:
Jesse Gordon, driven to a shocking murder by the killing of his wife and infant daughter, condemns himself to life underground in the New York City subway system. Abandoning the light of day, he finds an evil as old as time, and a redemption which must be bought by a price far greater than death.

Members Reviews:
Unconvincing effort at mingling a supernatural horror theme, with a crime novel
âLowland Riderâ is set in the mid-80s, and features as its protagonist a young man named Jesse Gordon. Gordon earns a living in New York City as an advertising copy writer; he and his his wife Donna have an infant daughter named Jennifer. As âLowlandâ opens, Gordonâs comfortable life is turned upside-down by an act of extreme violence, leaving him emotionally and psychologically devastated.
Overcome with post-traumatic stress disorder (a widely-used, âEightiesâ literary trope), Gordon decides to retreat from the life he knew, by taking up permanent residence in the cityâs subway system. Gordon soon adapts to pawing through trash cans for thrown-away food, taking makeshift baths in public restrooms, and adjusting his sleep cycle to selectively ride on the cars with the longest routes.
Gordon soon becomes one of the âinvisibleâ people who have made the subway their home; in so doing, he forms an unlikely friendship with a wino named Rags.
But as Gordon discovers, there is another, more sinister personage lurking in the unused tunnels, utility rooms, and corridors of the subway system: a man named Enoch. Clad in glowing, whiter-than-white clothes, Enoch is linked to muggings and murders committed on the subway cars.
Appalled at the violence that Enoch seems to instigate on the underground community, Gordon resolves to break free from his apathetic, self-pitying existence, and act to eliminate Enoch and his cronies â the hoodlums who use the tunnels as their clandestine drug markets - from the subway system.
But opposing the hoods will bring retaliationâ..in the form of a crooked NY cop with a willingness to use murder to silence anyone who dares to upset the status quo beneath the city streetsâ..
While the cover of âLowland Riderâ gives the impression that this is a horror novel, in reality, it primarily is a crime novel, one with some vague supernatural overtones.
Most of the first half of the novel is preoccupied with documenting Jesse Gordonâs psychological turmoil and existential angst, in often overwrought prose; this, not surprisingly, makes the book a boring read. At its mid-point the novel does start to generate some momentum, as Gordon begins his campaign against the drug gang; these are ruthless adversaries, and there is some suspense as the clashes unfold.
Unfortunately, when in the latter chapters author Williamson turns at last to the mystery of Enoch and the novelâs tacked-on horror element, the plot becomes quite contrived, and the Final Revelation about Enochâs existence is poorly composed..... and quite unconvincing.
Summing up, âLowland Riderâ is modestly successful as a sort of 80s 'vigilante' genre novel; as a horror novel, itâs a failure.