"Boldly imagined, full of glamour and peril, this expressionist novel considers what people sacrifice when history leaves them no good options."

– Alta

"Boldly imagined, full of glamour and peril, this expressionist novel considers what people sacrifice when history leaves them no good options."

– Alta

“Daringly imagined and darkly romantic—a moral thriller.”

– —Thomas Pynchon

“The sleek facade of Lang and von Harbou’s marriage is depicted in the novel with the artfulness of one of their exquisitely structured screenplays… Precise, convincing detailing of how it feels to have the ground you walk on give way beneath your feet… Lang’s alarming yearning for his wife and the deep black pool of loss that lies beneath is sparely, deeply poignant.”

– —Deborah Mason, New York Times Book Review

“Rodman, with his own sharp eye, has written a most original photogenic portrait…”

– —Samuel Fuller

“What Rodman has done is hard, he’s written an historical novel which is dazzling for its restrained use of history. The painfully accurate sensitivities of Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou are the real subjects of the book. Sentence by careful sentence, the resonance between what they see and how they see gives Destiny Express a quality of sober reflection that becomes quite beautiful.”

– —Michael Tolkin

“Rodman, with his own sharp eye, has written a most original photogenic portrait…”

– —Samuel Fuller

“Remarkable, passionate, inventive….”

– —Harlan Ellison