Product Description
Book-1 of a trucker crime series created with characters from radio plays originally aired coast-to-coast on the WLAC Nashville Network. Here, however, the players burst onto the scene uncensored and in full color. With Bull Schaffner as a long-haul truck driver and private-eye wannabe, author John Aalborg provides a trucker's eye view into lives normally invisible to the public and the law, and brings you back shocked, deeply touched, and strangely happy. "Lowboy #22" is the story of a missing, semi trailer-truck and its mysterious cargo. With an intelligent demeanor which barely fits his handle and robust appearance, Bull reveals a darker side as he encounters a resourceful career criminal and murderer in the form of an elegant but armed and dangerous old lady; a set of beautiful, Haitian, deaf-mute, twin girls; a pet monkey with serious needs owned by a thieving and ambitious nymphet; and the return of Bull's vivacious, resourceful, and ever-horny sister, Janey, who steers her oft-bewildered brother through the clues and pitfalls of the case he has just taken on. Operating outside the law themselves, Bull and Janey slog through one crisis after another, trailing gory murders along their route from rural Florida to the West Virginia hills to a truck terminal in Missouri to a young love-story beside the magic of the Miami River. Tough-guy crime/drama but where tougher women rule, with the narrative alternating between the male and female points of view.
From the Author
Without doing this consciously (at the beginning of my writing career), my stories and novels often feature heroines who outsmart, outplay, and outlast the male lead character. Not by much but they do, and it's not always a competition. Lowboy #22 is no exception. After looking at this trend of mine I have come to the conclusion that my stories are reflecting "real life", and there is no reason why my criminal characters should be an exception. A man can have ego problems which trip him up, especially a man who has become besotted with a woman. This is not to say my heroes fail to step up to the plate when lust or a good, "manly" cause rears its bloody head. -- John Aalborg (May 2011)
