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Hunting for truth, justice, or missing persons could get you killed in this gritty suspense thriller from the author of The Pure and the Hated.
On a remote highway in Arizona women are disappearing at truck stops. Journalist Johnny Sullivan travels to the area to investigate. He encounters hitchhiker Patty, who is being hunted by violent trucker Red. Patty tells Johnny of the local myth of the maniac trucker. Johnny also meets Valentino de La Cruz, a mysterious Mexican who is looking for his missing sister. Valentino is having an affair with Natasha, the wife of recently murdered businessman, Theodore Mills, whose wealth funds the corrupt police force in the area.
The local highway patrol is run by sexually sadistic Sam Roche and Franklin Norman, and they want to put an end to Johnny’s snooping. Marshall Simmons knows a lot about the goings on in the area, and has a young woman captive in a house. He is reprogramming her identity. Meanwhile Johnny discovers that serial killer Donald Lake disappeared in the area years ago while in transit between prisons. And it seems he had police help. Getting closer to the truth could prove dangerous….
“One of those irresistible hard-boiled reads that’s reminiscent of old school black and white noir.”—Vincent Zandri, New York Times–bestselling author of Orchard Grove.
“Exceptional writer…crackling dialogue…dazzling. Read him.”—Luke Rhinehart, bestselling author of The Dice Man
“The road novel from hell… a surrealist inferno that makes Dante's version look like a Rotary breakfast.”—Castle Freeman Jr., author of the Devil in the Valley
On a remote highway in Arizona women are disappearing at truck stops. Journalist Johnny Sullivan travels to the area to investigate. He encounters hitchhiker Patty, who is being hunted by violent trucker Red. Patty tells Johnny of the local myth of the maniac trucker. Johnny also meets Valentino de La Cruz, a mysterious Mexican who is looking for his missing sister. Valentino is having an affair with Natasha, the wife of recently murdered businessman, Theodore Mills, whose wealth funds the corrupt police force in the area.
The local highway patrol is run by sexually sadistic Sam Roche and Franklin Norman, and they want to put an end to Johnny’s snooping. Marshall Simmons knows a lot about the goings on in the area, and has a young woman captive in a house. He is reprogramming her identity. Meanwhile Johnny discovers that serial killer Donald Lake disappeared in the area years ago while in transit between prisons. And it seems he had police help. Getting closer to the truth could prove dangerous….
“One of those irresistible hard-boiled reads that’s reminiscent of old school black and white noir.”—Vincent Zandri, New York Times–bestselling author of Orchard Grove.
“Exceptional writer…crackling dialogue…dazzling. Read him.”—Luke Rhinehart, bestselling author of The Dice Man
“The road novel from hell… a surrealist inferno that makes Dante's version look like a Rotary breakfast.”—Castle Freeman Jr., author of the Devil in the Valley
About the author
Richard Godwin is the author of critically acclaimed novels Apostle Rising, Mr. Glamour, One Lost Summer, Noir City, Meaningful Conversations and Confessions Of A Hit Man. One Lost Summer, published June 2013, is a Noir story of fractured identity and ruined nostalgia. It is a psychological portrait of a man who blackmails his beautiful next door neighbour into playing a deadly game of identity. He is also a published poet and a produced playwright. His stories have been published in over 29 anthologies, among them his anthology of stories, Piquant: Tales Of The Mustard Man. He has also been published in The Mammoth Book Of Best British Crime. Apostle Rising is a dark work of fiction exploring the blurred line between law and lawlessness and the motivations that lead men to kill. It digs into the scarred soul of a cop in the hunt for a killer who has stepped straight from a nightmare into the waking world. Mr. Glamour is about a world of wealthy, beautiful people who can buy anything, except safety from the killer in their midst. It is about two scarred cops who are driven to acts of darkness by the investigation. As DCI Jackson Flare and DI Mandy Steele try to catch the killer they find themselves up against a wall of secrecy. And the killer is watching everyone. Richard Godwin was born in London and obtained a BA and MA in English and American Literature from King's College London, where he also lectured. You can find out more about him at his website www.richardgodwin.net, where you can also read his Chin Wags At The Slaughterhouse, his highly popular and unusual interviews with other authors.
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