{"product_id":"freight-paperback-4","title":"Freight - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRyan Lowell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs a lone semi-truck makes its snowy way to the US-Canadian border, a series of vivid characters are inexorably drawn into a desperate, comedic, and murderous scheme to steal its precious cargo. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Curtis, a newly hired dispatcher with a newly pregnant wife at home, holds a scrap of paper that identifies a semi-truck trailer that shouldn't exist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Billy Trask is a weathered and charismatic sociopath, who thinks nothing of quietly killing whomever may come in his way, and carefully guards the coordinates for a truck loaded with $10 million dollars-worth of Canadian pharmaceuticals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jimmy, Theo, and Sarah are the not-so-innocent locals poised to stand in Billy's way, none more so than Sarah, a local party girl with the heart and will of a colossus, and who will leave her own trail of mayhem and carnage in her 75-mile-per-hour wake. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the rough-and-tumble tradition of Dennis Lehane, S.A. Cosby, and classic American noir, \u003ci\u003eFreight\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrill-ride view of the world of labor, life and love--a searing portrait of men at work and also at their worst.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Lowell's fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePortland Monthly Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWorker's Write Journal \u003c\/i\u003eand other publications. His story \"Things Fall Apart\" was a \u003ci\u003eGlimmer Train\u003c\/i\u003e short story award contest finalist. \u003ci\u003eFreight\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel. He lives in South Portland, Maine, with his wife and two sons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 8.17 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 11, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48857155895545,"sku":"9780316596510","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/zTRTuFIZaM9780316596510_ed9debbd-2ca8-4446-8757-c2006b73111b.webp?v=1787145304","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/freight-paperback-4","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}