November Road: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

‘When people say they would like to read a really good novel, the kind you merely can’t deposit, this is actually the kind of reserve they mean. Exceptional.’ -STEPHEN KING

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly • Washington Post • AARP • Newsweek • Dallas Morning News • South Florida Sun-Sentinel • Chicago Public Library • Real Book Spy • CrimeReads • Litreactor • Collection Journal • LitHub • Booklist

Winner from the Hammett Prize, the Left Coast Crime “Lefty” Honor for about November Street: A Novel Best Mystery Novel, as well as the Oklahoma Book Prize for Ideal Fiction Novel!

Set against the assassination of JFK, a poignant and evocative crime novel that centers on a eager cat-and-mouse run after across 1960s America-a tale of unexpected cable connections, daring possibilities, as well as the hope of second probabilities through the Edgar Award-winning author of The Long and Faraway Eliminated.

Frank Guidry’s good luck has finally go out.

A loyal road lieutenant to New Orleans’ mob manager Carlos Marcello, Guidry has found that everybody is expendable. But now it’s his turn-he knows too much about the criminal offense of the hundred years: the assassination of Chief executive John F. Kennedy.

Within hours of JFK’s murder, everyone with ties to Marcello is turning up deceased, and Guidry suspects he’s following: he was in Dallas on an errand for the boss less than fourteen days before the president was shot. With few great options, Guidry hits the road to Las Vegas, to find out a vintage associate-a dangerous man who hates Marcello more than enough to greatly help Guidry vanish.

Guidry has learned that the initial rule of working is ‘don’t end,’ but when he sees a lovely housewife privately of the road with a broken-down car, two little daughters and a puppy in the trunk seat, he sees the perfect disguise to pay his tracks through the hit men on his tail. Posing as an insurance guy, Guidry offers to greatly help Charlotte reach her destination, California. If she accompanies him to Vegas, he can help her get a new car.

On her behalf, it’s more than a car- it’s a getaway. She’s on the run too, from a stifling life in small-town Oklahoma and a kindly husband who’s a hopeless drunk.

It’s an American story: two strangers meet to talk about the open road west, a desire, a hope-and get each other on the way.

Charlotte sees that he’s strong and kind; Guidry discovers that she’s clever and funny. He discovers that’s she determined to give herself and her kids a new lifestyle; she can’t know that he’s eager to keep his aged one behind.

Another rule-fugitives shouldn’t fall in love, specifically with one another. A road is not only a street, it’s a path, and Guidry’s ruthless and relentless hunters are shutting in on him. But now Guidry doesn’t need to just survive, he really wants to really live, probably for the very first time.

Everyone’s expendable, or they should be, but now Guidry just can’t throw away the girl he’s come to love.

And it might get them both killed.