{"product_id":"freight-9780316596510","title":"Freight","description":"\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 \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ryan Lowell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Little Brown and Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.17h x 5.54w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316596510","brand":"Little Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47907163373705,"sku":"9780316596510","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_10870292-30b4-49a2-9771-2073ac2e76c9.jpg?v=1785884623","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/freight-9780316596510","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}