Every industry, profession or trade has its icons, its legends. Right up there, near the top of trucking legends, is C.W. McCall. Searching for C.W. McCall reads like a trucker’s canon: do what you love, stand by your friends, and honor the rules of the road. Santiago Lopez and his faithful dog, Sloan, depart the family ranch in Pecos, New Mexico, in an old F-150 pickup to search for Santiago’s hero of more than thirty years, C.W. McCall. They soon find themselves welcomed by a convoy of 18-wheelers traversing the roads and highways of southern Colorado. The characters in the story are people you would like to know. Some, most notably Sally Tremaine and Dixie O’Donnell, whose handle is “Hoot ‘N’ Holler,” appeared in Tom Claffey’s previous novel, Hoot ‘N’ Holler, which won the Truck Writers of North America 2009 Bronze Communication Award for book of fiction. Do Santiago and Sloan find C.W. McCall? Read the story of their journey and find out!
Switching constantly between the long running tea party which, for some, was Victorian England, and the perilous landscapes of the American Southwest, Benarty, a prosperous young Englishman, is beset by the memory of his last weeks in London, during which he has step by step divested himself of fiancée, family, friends, servants and career. His protected life has been disturbed by the arrival on his doorstep of a mysterious young American, who sneers at Benarty’s conventional life. Bitterly jealous of Tam’s far-flung adventuring and enviable certainties, there is something in Benarty which welcomes this upheaval, without which, he suspects, he would have passed his days attempting to plaster over the mutinous cracks in his well-ordered existence. He uncovers Tam’s true identity in a startling conclusion.
Nick Cowan lost his innocence and his wife in the Sea of Cortez. A small town in west Texas took a gamble on the future and lost everything. Paula Stafford lost her brother to Helen Daws, who never lost a thing in her life, and all of them are heading for a bloody rendezvous on the shores of the Sea of Deception.
Most of us weave the fabric of our lives with strands selected from the seven virtues and the seven deadly sins. Jennifer Murphy found another thread, and when it began to unravel, she left a man with a knife in his chest on her kitchen floor in New Mexico and a cry for help on Rainbow Porter's door.
Porter loved Jenny—in a way. At the very least, he had an affection and they had an accommodation, but the more he pursues the running woman, the deeper he digs into her past, the less he understands her as a woman or an artist, and the less he understands his attraction to her.
The cops want Jenny, Porter wants her, two ex-husbands want her, a killer is stalking her, and then two dubious figures from the intelligence community muscle into the chase. When Rainbow recruits Sharon Coulter, an attractive ex-cop and detective from LA, to join the hunt, they begin to close in on the central mystery of Jenny's past. But as Rainbow begins to understand Jennifer, he begins to understand Sharon too, and Sharon is damaged in some of the same ways he is.
When the Reverend Richard Catesby’s younger brother Willy disappears in his yellow Volkswagen convertible, the local sheriff does not believe there is enough evidence to warrant an investigation. But Catesby, convinced his brother has been murdered, puts aside his vows as an Episcopal priest and prepares to avenge Willy himself. His friend Stan, worried not only for Richard’s safety, but also bout the morality of his crusade, tries to reason with him. Richard however, finds himself growing fond of his role as a samurai. He devises an intriguing revenge, and Stan reluctantly finds himself caught up in its web.
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