Lowdown Road
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
One of “The Most Wanted Crime Novels of 2023” — Crimefictionlover.com
Join a heart-racing road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid the cops and criminals hot on their tails.
It’s the summer of ’74…Richard Nixon has resigned from office, CB radios are the hot new thing, and in the great state of Texas two cousins hatch a plan to drive $1 million worth of stolen weed to Idaho, where some lunatic is gearing up to jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket-powered motorcycle. But with a vengeful sheriff on their tail and the revered and feared marijuana kingpin of Central Texas out to get his stash back, Chuck and Dean are in for the ride of their lives – if they can make it out alive…
Scott Von Doviak, longtime pop-culture journalist for The A.V. Club, Film Threat, The Hollywood Reporter, and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, made a splash with his debut novel, CHARLESGATE CONFIDENTIAL, which Stephen King called “terrific” and “a fun machine…the white-knuckle kind.” With LOWDOWN ROAD, he cements his reputation for pedal-to-the-metal storytelling that also makes you think about just who we are and where our darker roads might lead us.
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It's the summer of 1974, and Chuck Melville has just been released from state prison for aggravated assault in this all-action outing from Von Doviak (Charlesgate Confidential). Rough and reckless, Chuck immediately winds up in the middle of a double murder, and while he's on the run from the law, his lothario cousin Dean convinces him to help steal 250 pounds of marijuana from Dean's boss, big-time dope peddler Antoine Lynch. Intending to sell the weed to a swarm of biker groupies gathered for an Evel Knievel stunt show at Idaho's Snake, the duo embarks on a wild cross-country drive from Texas, attracting lusty women and ruthless psychopaths at almost every stop along the way; with a vengeful sheriff and pissed-off Antoine in hot pursuit, the cousins barrel, grinning, toward a grim finale. Though the story occasionally gets sidelined in favor of ever-escalating grindhouse madness, Von Doviak never drops the ball. Razor-sharp dialogue and high-octane action keep this entertaining pulp novel afloat.
