Night Driver
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Publisher Description
So this was it, he thought. He had his first fare and was now officially a cab driver. He shook his head as he exhaled the smoke into the morning cold. Well, he’d use the taxi time just as he had promised himself. He would figure things out, get a hold on himself, keep a little money coming in, and find the men who had murdered his wife.
Nick Cullen's wife was brutally murdered in a burglary gone horribly wrong, and he's not the type to move on with his life, especially when he has seen the faces of the murderers in person. His plan: learn how to drive a cab so he can find his wife's murderers on the streets of Los Angeles.
Nick's nighttime rides lead him down dead end after dead end, until one day he manages to get a hold of the ID of one of the men who destroyed his life. Nick's chase heats up and he's forced to face the truth of how far a man will go who has nothing left to lose.
Night Drivertakes the reader on a white-knuckled thrill ride through the dimly lit streets of after-hours Los Angeles and into the dark heart of a man pushed to the brink. An unforgettable journey of obsession, sadness, and revenge.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Colby's well-paced first novel takes the reader on a winding, exhilarating ride through late-1970s Los Angeles. Nick Cullen had a burgeoning career as a photographer, until he returned home one day to find his wife brutally beaten and dying, her three assailants standing over her, and was shot in the head. After his release from the hospital, Nick has only one desire: to find the men responsible for this horrific crime. Much more than a simple tale of revenge, the novel charts Nick's recovery from the depression and guilt that cling to all trauma survivors. To make ends meet, he takes a job as a taxi driver, and a series of interactions with his clients by turns poignant, sad, frightening, and illuminating show him gradually regaining some semblance of a normal life. Meanwhile, drugged-out criminals, an L.A. drug boss, the corrupt cop on the boss's payroll, and the LAPD detective overseeing the case each have their own agendas. All these threads converge in a richly satisfying resolution.
