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If you have young daughters who like to drive around the countryside looking for action, you probably won’t get much sleep after reading this one.
Teenager Danielle Sullivan and her younger sister Gracie are driving to Omaha for Thanksgiving dinner with their mother. But Danielle decides they should take a quick detour to Helena, Montana, and pay a visit to her boyfriend Justin. Danielle is feeling insecure because Justin has signaled that he wants to dump her. So what could go wrong? In a word, plenty.
The self-styled Lizard King is also on the same highway, chugging along at the wheel of his eighteen-wheeler truck. He calls himself that because of his ability to entice prostitutes hanging around truck stops, women called lot lizards, and get satisfaction from them while they are inside his truck’s cab. In several situations he has drugged them, taken them to distant locations, and engaged in some pretty grisly activities.
The stage is set when the sisters have a confrontation with the Lizard while both car and truck are barreling down the same highway. I won’t divulge the plot details here but, when the girls turn up missing, the police become involved. Investigator Cassie Dewell, the former partner of Police Investigator Cody Hoyt, gets him to conduct a search since Justin (Danielle’s boyfriend) is Cody’s son. (Cody Hoyt is the protagonist of another Box book called Back of Beyond.) Cody has just lost his police job and fallen off the wagon after a long period of sobriety. He’s probably not the best guy for this job but he takes it anyway and heads out on the highways.
Box’s writing style is top notch in this thriller and you will be pulled along easily on those same highways, chapter by chapter, until reaching the exciting end.


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The Highway A Novel Highway Quartet C J Box Books Reviews

This is a solid 3.5 star book. I really enjoyed it. I've read a bunch of other reviews where people remark on the violence and blood and gore. I didn't think that it was that bad. Certainly, there is a lot of implied violence and some actual violence but the disturbing part is the threatened violence (which, thankfully, never gets explained in detail). Some of the aversion to violence brought up by some reviewers seemed a tad hysterical. It's not like the first book in this series was G-rated.

Back of Beyond was my first CJ Box book. I really enjoyed it. I agree with some of the plot holes that others brought up. But, I didn't think that they were so bad that I couldn't continue that book. With The Highway there were a few odd things i noted while reading but nothing too bad. I didn't think my suspension of belief had to be too drastic to enjoy the book. There is a MJAOR plot twist that I didn't see coming. And since I thought this was a series I was thrown off guard and bothered by it. I was hoping to get into a series with several books. Clearly, the author wanted to go in a different direction (I would expand on what I mean but it would be a major spoiler).

I would read more CJ Box.
Spoiler alert! Having finally begun to actually like Cody Hoyt, I was a bit disappointed because he meets a gruesome demise in this novel. The Highway has as its inspiration the real life serial killer/long haul trucker named Robert Ben Rhoades, also known as the Truck Stop Killer, whose trucker radio nickname was Whips and Chains. Combining that character, named Ronald Pergram's in the novel, with one inspired by real life policemen who have been caught as serial killers, along with integrating teenage girl characters from Back of Beyond, lays the foundation for the new hero of Box's "stand alone" novels Cassie Dewell. Dewell is not fully fleshed out in the novel, and her mother, like many mothers, is annoying, but tolerable. I look forward to learning more about Dewell in the next novel. That said, Box aptly captures the impulsivity and obliviousness that plagues many teens, setting up the increasing plot tension as we know that they will be Pergram's next captives. While I am disappointed that Hoyt was murdered, I became convinced that Dewell will become a compelling character, especially in the next Dewell book Badlands, which I have yet to read, except for the first 2 chapters that were tacked onto the ebook version of The Highway. Overall, the book ventures into areas reminiscent of Patricia Cornwell serial killers, rogue cops, etc. Neither The Highway, nor its predecessor Back of Beyond, have enough light moments to alleviate the oppressive evil and darkness permeating both novels. I wondered why Box would choose such a subject as serial killers, except that there is always something to learn from accomplished mystery/thriller writers such as Box. Since the author has daughters, we can only surmise and hope that he is trying to alert teens and their parents and grandparents to something that the FBI knows only too clearly independent long haul trucking is a serial killer's ideal occupation and that the country is littered with victims' bodies along long haul trucking routes. While the novel was a little too dark for me, I think it is a promising beginning for the development of a new Box hero Cassie Dewell.
If you have young daughters who like to drive around the countryside looking for action, you probably won’t get much sleep after reading this one.
Teenager Danielle Sullivan and her younger sister Gracie are driving to Omaha for Thanksgiving dinner with their mother. But Danielle decides they should take a quick detour to Helena, Montana, and pay a visit to her boyfriend Justin. Danielle is feeling insecure because Justin has signaled that he wants to dump her. So what could go wrong? In a word, plenty.
The self-styled Lizard King is also on the same highway, chugging along at the wheel of his eighteen-wheeler truck. He calls himself that because of his ability to entice prostitutes hanging around truck stops, women called lot lizards, and get satisfaction from them while they are inside his truck’s cab. In several situations he has drugged them, taken them to distant locations, and engaged in some pretty grisly activities.
The stage is set when the sisters have a confrontation with the Lizard while both car and truck are barreling down the same highway. I won’t divulge the plot details here but, when the girls turn up missing, the police become involved. Investigator Cassie Dewell, the former partner of Police Investigator Cody Hoyt, gets him to conduct a search since Justin (Danielle’s boyfriend) is Cody’s son. (Cody Hoyt is the protagonist of another Box book called Back of Beyond.) Cody has just lost his police job and fallen off the wagon after a long period of sobriety. He’s probably not the best guy for this job but he takes it anyway and heads out on the highways.
Box’s writing style is top notch in this thriller and you will be pulled along easily on those same highways, chapter by chapter, until reaching the exciting end.