Pastor turned long-haul trucker, Mack, struggles with grief and perceived failures as a minister while he is confronted with a mysterious hitchhiker, smugglers, and a determined killer. After an unbearable tragedy strikes his life, he sells everything he owns and buys a new Peterbilt truck, returning to the trade he learned decades earlier.
Hoping for some windshield therapy and peace of mind behind the wheel of his new rig, Mack gets neither after God nudges him to pick up a hitchhiker near the Jordan State Prison outside Mack’s childhood home of Pampa, Texas.
When his world is ripped apart, he seeks to run away from it all, going as far as to cut off communication with all but a handful of people. But he is pursued by God, who will not let him go. Unbeknownst to Mack, God is equipping His servant with tools to handle events his past education and experience could never have prepared him for.
The story unfolds as the hitchhiker enters Mack’s Peterbilt. The man reminds Mack of his father, a hard living, hard drinking oilfield roughneck who died in prison. God begins to do a work in Mack’s heart while Mack seeks to minister to his new passenger. But Mack soon rues the day he let the hitchhiker into his truck.
His old life in ruins now, Mack learns he has angered a new enemy who threatens to destroy his life on the road as well. Mack suspects he is being followed and is in the sights of a killer who plots a revenge no one could have seen coming.
God works His mysterious way in Mack’s life steamroller-style all the way to an ending that will leave the reader thinking about it long after reading The End at the bottom of the last page.
My Review:
This book was a little bit of a mixed bag for me. The writing was really good, the characters and the things they said often had me smiling, and the story had a good pace. I know some people didn't like the way names were assigned to characters like Officer Smiley, G-Man, Sugar Dumpling, etc., but I liked them--it added character to the story. What had me struggling at the end some was all of the trucker terms that I didn't understand like "seal number" and "bill of lading." Those terms were important to understand the conclusion, and without that understanding the conclusion wasn't, in my opinion, as impactful as it could have been. Overall though, it was a good read!
I voluntarily received a complimentary copy from Book Sirens. All opinions and thoughts are my own.
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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