The Black Mariah

Bonansinga, Jay R.

ISBN 10: 1857975561 / ISBN 13: 9781857975567

Published by Orion Publishing Co, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Black Mariah
• Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857975561
• ISBN 13: 9781857975567
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1742300131.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 12044305
• Signed: 3/18/2025 12:15:31 PM
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Synopsis

Set on the open road of long-distance truckers, the novel opens as Lucas and Sophie hear a cry for help over their CB radio. A trucker is cursed - doomed to drive forever or be consumed by fire. Their failure to save him means the curse falls upon them.

From Publishers Weekly

The Black Mariah is the CB nickname for independent trucker Lucas Hyde's rig, which he rides cross-country with his partner Sophie Cohen, a former San Francisco debutante turned vegetarian intellectual hobo. A black man raised in gangland California, Lucas finds freedom from prejudice and streetlife in the anonymity of the highway. On a routine run, Lucas and Sophie receive a wailing CB call for help from a young man in a Camaro claiming he's been put under a curse requiring that he remain in constant motion. The truck-driving team helps him refuel while he keeps his car going, setting off a chain of queasy events that plummet Lucas and Sophie smack dab in the middle of the same curse. In a fast-paced chase sequence reminiscent of Cannonball Run via The Howling , Lucas, Sophie and a Mexican teenager flee highway cops, the FBI and an embittered octogenarian woman whose childhood betrayal by a young black man has turned her to mix voodoo and racism in creating the flying Dutchman curse. First novelist Bonansinga's unusual tale clearly has something to say about the difficulty of overcoming the effects of racism on the individual and he's chosen an odd, haunting venue for conveying it. Movie rights to New Line.
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