The Load: An Over-the-Road Mystery - Softcover

White, Doug

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9780972433440: The Load: An Over-the-Road Mystery

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ISBN 10: 0972433449 ISBN 13: 9780972433440

Publisher: Bookman Publishing, 2004

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The dispatch appears to be strictly routine: Pick up a load at a mine in Montana and deliver it to Reno, Nevada. But it doesn't take long before long-haul trucker Jake Winters realizes he's being sent to a ghost town to pick up a load at a mine that closed more than a hundred years ago. Little does he know that a mysterious pick up is the least of his worries. He is soon accused of a crime that has no logical explanation. In Doug White's first novel, The Load: An Over-the-Road Mystery, protagonist Jake Winters takes readers on an unforgettable ride as a cross-country truck driver who finds himself in unusual trouble. Against the beautiful backdrop of the U.S. West, White-who also happens to be an over-the-road trucker-crafts a baffling thriller about an unusual load that mysteriously disappears from a sealed trailer. We first meet Winters behind the wheel of his Freightliner as he is being pulled over by the Department of Transportation and the FBI. Initially he is simply curious about the situation, certain the authorities have no real business with him. But then he learns that his sealed trailer is empty, when it should have been holding a 4,000-piece of mining equipment. And the chief suspect in the case of the missing crusher is none other than he! In the days before, Winters had taken a harrowing drive up a mountain road to J and J Mines in Slippery Gulch. He encounters several people in the old West town, including a waifish boy and the crusty owner of the mine. Winters chalks up an obvious lack of modern amenities to the isolated location of the town. But when the mine owner is mystified by the ballpoint pen Winters presents to sign the paperwork, even the easygoing trucker begins to question the situation.

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About the Author:

Doug White is a former teacher and camp counselor who has been driving big truck cross-country for the past 12 years. He is a graduate of Massanutten Military Academy, in Woodstock, Virginia, and Ashland College (now Ashland University) in Ashland, Ohio. When he's not on the road, White resides in Orchard Park, New York. He enjoys camping, canoeing and fishing. "The Load" is the first book in a series that Doug is currently working on.

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