The Highway Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00CPNG7PC | Format: PDF
The Highway Description
From the New York Times best-selling author of Blue Heaven and Back of Beyond, C.J. Box, comes a gripping new thriller.
When teenagers Danielle and Gracie Sullivan take a clandestine car trip to visit their friend in Montana, little do they know it's the last time anyone will ever hear from them again. The girls and their car simply vanish.
Cody Hoyt, who's just lost his job and has fallen off the wagon after a long stretch of sobriety, is in no condition to investigate. But his son Justin, who the girls were going to visit, and his former partner, Cassie Dewell, convince him to drive south to their last known location. As Cody makes his way to the remote stretch of Montana highway where the girls went missing, Cassie discovers that there have been scores of similar disappearances in the state. There's a serial killer out there roaming the highways, and Cody and Cassie must find him before he takes more lives.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 9 hours and 53 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: July 30, 2013
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00CPNG7PC
The bulk of the story in The Highway takes place with the span of just two days, so the action and suspense move quickly into high gear and stay there. But, the author also manages to fully develop some interesting, complicated, and in some cases, very scary, characters along the way.
I do not like books that are too gruesome. Once I started reading The Highway and realized what kind of a bad guy we were dealing with, I started worrying about what I was in for. Much to my relief, Box managed to walk a fine line between presenting enough detail to horrify me without pushing me over the edge to "I can't read any more of this."
I love a book with plot turns that surprise me, and The Highway did - twice. It also introduces a new character, Investigator Cassie Dewell of the Lewis and Clark County Montana Sheriff's Department, who I hope we will be seeing more of.
Some of the characters in The Highway were introduced in a previous book, Back of Beyond. However, there is absolutely no need to have read Back of Beyond in order to fully enjoy reading The Highway. I highly recommend this book to all fans of C.J. Box and to anyone who likes an action-packed suspenseful thriller.
By Vickie T.
VINE VOICE
A non-Joe Pickett novel that reprises the character of Cody Hoyt--the Montana cop from an earlier stand alone story. This one is about serial killers targeting prostitutes and female runaways and it is very violent. While the protagonist here is a woman, much of the work is given over to a criminally insane cross-country trucker who styles himself "The Lizard King", and his sick-in-the head partners. "The Highway" is written with C.J. Box's usual flair for a quick moving story line and strong good/bad characters, so longtime fans of the author will not be disappointed in that context. It does not feature the western landscape and interaction with nature that are a big part of the Pickett books.
In my case, I almost took an early exit from the "...Highway" because of its extreme victimization of women. At the outset, there is a detailed account of a stalking/killing that is stomach-turning. The author may have intended to bring a big problem (the random killing of prostitutes) to the surface and the book certainly serves that purpose; but many if not most of the female characters here are unintelligent, unpleasant, or otherwise life's victims of some kind or another. This includes the protagonist with respect to victimization. For me, the dark side often overwhelmed the action story. There are often murder and mayhem in the Joe Pickett series, but somehow they're in balance with the rest of the story.
So, overall, if sadism is not your thing, give this one a miss.
By Blue in Washington
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