Purgatory Road

Named one of Library Journal's Best Books of 2017"Exceptional first novel."--Publishers Weekly, starred review"Will grip suspense aficionados from the first page."--Library Journal, starred review"A skillfully written, gripping thriller."--Booklist"Action-packed with breakneck pacing."--Foreword ReviewsWhen a day trip out of Las Vegas with his wife takes a turn for the worse, Jack is sure he has the ability to get them home. But he has driven into something far beyond reason.Rescue comes in the form of a desert hermit, but hope fades as the couple comes to realize that the nomad has no intention of letting them leave. A chance encounter with a kidnapped runaway and her crazed abductor leads them all farther into the wilderness--and closer to the cold brutality that isolation brings.At the edge of his sanity, Jack begins to learn that playing by another's rules may be the only way to survive.In a voice that is as hypnotizing as a desert mirage, debut novelist Samuel Parker entices you down a treacherous road, where the forces of good and evil are as crushing as the Mojave heat. "A taut and twisted race into the human heart; an absorbing meditation on surviving the wilderness around us, as well as the wilderness within."--Josh James Riebock, bestselling author of Heroes and Monsters "Parker brings a unique voice to fiction that is at once engaging and unsettling. An exceptional read worthy of big-screen adaptation."--Booker T. Mattison, filmmaker, author, professorSamuel Parker was born in the Michigan boondocks but was raised on a never-ending road trip through the US. Besides writing, he is a process junkie and the ex-guitarist for several metal bands you've never heard of. He lives in West Michigan with his wife and twin sons.