Purgatory Road

By Samuel Parker

Book Overview

Named one of Library Journal 's Best Books of 2017"Exceptional first novel." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Will grip suspense aficionados from the first page." -- Library Journal , starred review "A skillfully written, gripping thriller." -- Booklist "Action-packed with breakneck pacing." -- Foreword Reviews When a day trip out of Las Vegas with his wife takes a turn for the worse, Jack is sure that he has the ability to get them home. But he drove into something far beyond reason.Rescue comes in the form of a desert hermit, but hope fades as the couple comes to realize that the nomad has no intention of letting them leave. A chance encounter with a kidnapped runaway and her crazed abductor leads them all farther into the wilderness--and closer to the cold brutality that isolation brings.At the edge of his sanity, Jack begins to learn that playing by another's rules may be the only way to survive.In a voice that is as hypnotizing as a desert mirage, debut novelist Samuel Parker entices readers down a dangerous road, where the forces of good and evil are as crushing as the Mojave heat. This is suspense in its purest, most unfiltered form.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800727339
• ISBN13: 9780800727338
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"