BLOOD HIGHWAY: A Novel
by Gina Wohlsdorf
August 7th 2018
Algonquin Books
The heart-pounding page-turner stars Rainy Cain, a troubled and street smart seventeen-year-old whose mother suffers from crippling depression and whose father is long dead—or so she believes. She arrives home one day to find her mother has taken her own life, and the police officer at the scene soon reveals that Rainy’s father is not only alive, but has recently escaped from prison. Before Rainy can wrap her mind around everything, her father kidnaps her, hoping she’ll lead him to millions of dollars that he believes her mother kept from him after a botched robbery years earlier. Blaine, a good-natured cop with a dark past of his own, is hot on their heels, determined to bring Rainy home at any cost. The result is an edge-of-your-seat cross-country chase that will test Rainy’s wits, strength, and will to live.
“A sensational hard-boiled thriller as tough and uncompromising as its main character, Rainy Cain. Don’t miss this.”—Lee Child, bestselling author of The Midnight Line
Gina Wohlsdorf’s critically acclaimed breakout novel Security was praised as “scary, gory, kinky, and experimental” (Booklist, starred review)
“an ingeniously plotted, postmodern granddaughter of an Agatha Christie novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine)
Blood Highway features the same shocking twists and turns, with a feisty young heroine locked in a desperate fight to survive.
“an ingeniously plotted, postmodern granddaughter of an Agatha Christie novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine)
Blood Highway features the same shocking twists and turns, with a feisty young heroine locked in a desperate fight to survive.
MORE ON BLOOD HIGHWAY . . .
Meet Rainy Cain, a tough, smart seventeen-year-old whose primary instinct is survival. That instinct is tested when her life is upended by the sudden appearance of her father, Sam, who she thought was long dead, but instead had been in prison for his part in an armored truck robbery gone murderously wrong. Now escaped and on the run, he kidnaps Rainy, who he is convinced knows where the money from the robbery, never recovered, is hidden.
Accompanied by a henchman with secret motives of his own, they set off on a cross-country dash to Big Sur, where Sam suspects his late wife stashed the cash. On their heels is a Minneapolis cop intent on bringing Rainy safely home.
It is an odyssey that will push Rainy to the limits of endurance, and that will keep readers guessing until the very end. What does Rainy really know—and what is she willing to sacrifice in order to live?
Accompanied by a henchman with secret motives of his own, they set off on a cross-country dash to Big Sur, where Sam suspects his late wife stashed the cash. On their heels is a Minneapolis cop intent on bringing Rainy safely home.
It is an odyssey that will push Rainy to the limits of endurance, and that will keep readers guessing until the very end. What does Rainy really know—and what is she willing to sacrifice in order to live?
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