{"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\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\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316596510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2026 pg. 45\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ryan Lowell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52715572527285,"sku":"9780316596510","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_1ec10810-1bec-49aa-b4bb-038a20ad4ff4.jpg?v=1781714229","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/freight-9780316596510","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}