Mr. X and the Cog Train from Heaven by W.L. Liberman

Xerxes Frankel travels the world hosting a reality-based television series called Get Outta Town! He is a high energy dude with a knack for stumbling into adventures. This stop: Lucerne, Switzerland. Xerxes hooks up with top dog snowboarder, Ludi Magister and cruises through the streets, checks out the sites, the sounds, the eats and a scary incident with a cog train in a raging blizzard. Throughout the story, Xerxes and his crew grapple with Hessian Hermano, who only wants to take over all of Switzerland and claim it for his own. Xerxes and the crew find themselves involved in a real life video game that takes place in a whole other dimension. Next stop: Costa Rica where Xerxes gets his eco-warrior side exercised.