The Highway Kind: Tales of Fast Cars, Desperate Drivers and Dark Roads (Paperback)

Patrick Millikin

ISBN 10: 1473650186 / ISBN 13: 9781473650183

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2016

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Paperback. Like fiction, cars take us into a different world: from the tony enclaves of upper crust society to the lowliest barrio; from muscle car-driving con men to hardscrabble kids on the road during the Great Depression; from a psychotic traveling salesman to a Mexican drug lord who drives a tricked-out VW Bus. We all share the roads, and our cars link us together. Including entirely new stories from Michael Connelly, C.J. Box, George Pelecanos, Diana Gabaldon, James Sallis, Ace Atkins, Luis Alberto Urrea, Sara Gran, Ben H. Winters, and Joe Lansdale, THE HIGHWAY KIND is a street-level look at modern America, as seen through one of its national obsessions. Thrilling crime stories about cars, driving, and the road from the world's bestselling and critically acclaimed writers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Highway Kind: Tales of Fast Cars, Desperate Drivers and Dark Roads (Paperback)
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, London
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1473650186
• ISBN 13: 9781473650183
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Thrilling crime stories about cars, driving, and the road from the world's bestselling and critically acclaimed writers.
Like fiction, cars take us into a different world: from the tony enclaves of upper crust society to the lowliest barrio; from muscle car-driving con men to hardscrabble kids on the road during the Great Depression; from a psychotic traveling salesman to a Mexican drug lord who drives a tricked-out VW Bus. We all share the roads, and our cars link us together.

Including entirely new stories from Michael Connelly, C.J. Box, George Pelecanos, Diana Gabaldon, James Sallis, Ace Atkins, Luis Alberto Urrea, Sara Gran, Ben H. Winters, and Joe Lansdale, THE HIGHWAY KIND is a street-level look at modern America, as seen through one of its national obsessions.

About the Author

Patrick Millikin is a bookseller at The Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, AZ. He is the editor of Phoenix Noir (Akashic), which contained the Edgar-Award-winning story "Amapola" by Luis Alberto Urrea. As a freelance writer, his articles, interviews and reviews have appeared in Publishers Weekly, The Los Angeles Review of Books, True West and other publications. He lives in Phoenix, AZ and is currently restoring a 1960 Cadillac Sedan Deville.