Pedaling East

Federal Agents don't get days off, and neither do their enemies.

When the FBI unfairly suspends Special Agents Marina Butnari and Doug Hill, they plan an epic West Coast to East Coast bicycle journey with friends. In their profession, they're accustomed to following trouble, but this time it follows them across the country as a dangerous human trafficking cartel teams with a white nationalist militia group to eliminate them.

Danger lurks around every bend in the road for the bikers in an adventure as explosive as Old Faithful and as intense as Niagara Falls. The trip, which starts in Oregon, will end in Boston, but how?

EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS a crime fiction adventure celebrating the strength of friendship, the resilience of partnership, and the power of teamwork in a novel featuring beloved characters from some of the other multiple award-winning books by E. A. Coe.

Literary Titan (5 STARS) says:

"I enjoyed how the book refuses to be only one thing. It's part procedural thriller, part travel adventure, part found-family story, and part love letter to the oddly practical logistics of survival, bicycles, motel stops, RV repairs, route planning, hospital visits, and all. Coe gives the trip an authentic feel. I could feel the miles accumulating, not as empty scenery but as pressure, respite, and companionship. The best scenes are not always the most explosive ones. Sometimes the book is strongest when six people are sharing food, teasing each other, worrying in private, or choosing, again and again, to keep moving.

"The novel's earnestness is also its signature. Its villains can be stark, and some exposition arrives with a firm hand, but the book's emotional architecture is sturdy enough to carry that weight. I liked that the thriller machinery never entirely swallows the tenderness between Marina, Tati, Doug, Henri, Carrie, and Russ. The violence has consequences, but so does loyalty. By the end, the story has the unusual warmth of a suspense novel that wants to raise your pulse without curdling your faith in people.

"The target audience is readers who enjoy thrillers, human-trafficking suspense, adventure fiction, found-family, and crime thrillers with heart. I would compare it to a softer, more road-worn David Baldacci novel, less sleek and cynical, more companionable, with room for coffee, bruises, jokes, and grace between the peril."