Freight
3.0 (1 rating)

Freight

Curtis, A Dispatcher With A Pregnant Wife At Home, Holds A Scrap Of Paper That Identifies A Semi-truck Trailer That Shouldn't Exist. Billy Trask Is A Charismatic Sociopath Who Carefully Guards The Coordinates For A Truck Loaded With $5 Million Dollars-worth Of Canadian Pharmaceuticals. 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 Will Of A Colossus, Who Will Leave Her Own Trail Of Carnage In Her 75-mile-per-hour Wake. In The Rough-and-tumble Tradition Of Dennis Lehane, S.a. Cosby, And Classic American Noir, Freight 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-- Provided By Publisher.

ISBN: 9780316596510

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Matt D.

Aug 17, 2026

I grabbed this on a whim at the library after the cover caught my attention. It lacked anything near to being a thriller and was more of a bleak story of several people with tough lives. For a short book, it took a while for anything to happen and once it did, I wasn’t that interested.