‘When people say they want to read an extremely good novel, the type you merely can’t put down, this is actually the kind of reserve they mean. Exceptional.’ -STEPHEN KING

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Winner of the Hammett Prize, the Left Coast Crime “Lefty” Honor for about November Street: A Novel Best Mystery Novel, and the Oklahoma Book Prize for Best Fiction Novel!

Set against the assassination of JFK, a poignant and evocative criminal offense novel that centers around a desperate cat-and-mouse run after across 1960s America-a story of unexpected connections, daring possibilities, as well as the wish of second possibilities through the Edgar Award-winning writer of The Long and Faraway Gone.

Frank Guidry’s good luck has finally go out.

A loyal street lieutenant to New Orleans’ mob manager Carlos Marcello, Guidry has found that everybody is expendable. However now it’s his turn-he understands an excessive amount of about the crime of the hundred years: the assassination of Chief executive John F. Kennedy.

Within hours of JFK’s murder, everyone with ties to Marcello is normally turning up inactive, and Guidry suspects he’s next: he was in Dallas on an errand for the boss significantly less than two weeks prior to the president was shot. With few good options, Guidry strikes the street to NEVADA, to see a vintage associate-a dangerous guy who hates Marcello more than enough to greatly help Guidry vanish.

Guidry has learned that the 1st rule of jogging is ‘don’t stop,’ but when he sees a beautiful housewife on the side of the road using a broken-down car, two small daughters and a dog in the back chair, he sees the perfect disguise to hide his tracks through the hit men on his tail. Posing simply because an insurance man, Guidry offers to greatly help Charlotte reach her destination, California. If she accompanies him to Vegas, he can help her get a new car.

On her behalf, it’s more than a car- it’s an escape. She’s on the run too, from a stifling living in small-town Oklahoma and a kindly spouse who’s a hopeless drunk.

It’s an American story: two strangers meet to share the open road west, a desire, a hope-and come across each other along the way.

Charlotte sees that he’s strong and kind; Guidry discovers that she’s smart and funny. He discovers that’s she decided to provide herself and her children a new life; she can’t understand that he’s desperate to leave his aged one behind.

Another rule-fugitives shouldn’t fall in love, especially with one another. A road isn’t only a street, it’s a path, and Guidry’s ruthless and relentless hunters are closing in on him. But now Guidry doesn’t wish to just survive, he really wants to actually live, maybe for the first time.

Everyone’s expendable, or they must be, but now Guidry just can’t throw away the woman he’s come to love.

And it could have them both killed.