A one-armed railroad-security agent’s troubleshooting branches out into new territory.

Hook Runyon (The Yard Dog, 2009) and his scruffy dog Mixer have a new assignment: Stop checking the tracks around Needles, Calif., and hustle over to Barstow, where the inmates ...

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