Purgatory Road
by Samuel Parker
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Pub Date Jan 03 2017 | Archive Date Apr 05 2018
Description
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.
"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.
Advance Praise
“Purgatory Road is a taut and twisted race into the human heart; an absorbing meditation on surviving the wilderness around us, as well as the wilderness within. Only after turning the final page was I able to catch my breath.”
—Josh James Riebock, bestselling author of Heroes and Monsters and My Generation
“Samuel Parker brings a unique voice to fiction that is, at once, engaging and unsettling. His ability to breathe life and realism into even the most minor characters is one of the many reasons that Purgatory Road is an exceptional read. This book is definitely worthy of a big-screen adaptation.”
—Booker T. Mattison, filmmaker, author, professor
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780800727338 |
| PRICE | $16.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 304 |
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