Freight

A Novel

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By Ryan Lowell

Read by Pete Simonelli

On Sale
Aug 11, 2026
Publisher
Hachette Audio
ISBN-13
9781668657263

As a lone semi-truck makes its snowy way to the US-Canadian border, a series of vivid characters are inexorably drawn into a desperate, comedic, and murderous scheme to steal its precious cargo. 

Curtis, a newly hired dispatcher with a newly pregnant wife at home, holds a scrap of paper that identifies a semi-truck trailer that shouldn’t exist.

Billy Trask is a weathered and charismatic sociopath, who thinks nothing of quietly killing whomever may come in his way, and carefully guards the coordinates for a truck loaded with $5 million dollars-worth of Canadian pharmaceuticals.

Jimmy, Theo, and Sarah are the not-so-innocent locals poised to stand in Billy’s way, none more so than Sarah, a local party girl with the heart and will of a colossus, and who will leave her own trail of mayhem and carnage in her 75-mile-per-hour wake.

In the rough-and-tumble tradition of Dennis Lehane, S.A. Cosby, and classic American noir, Freight is a thrill-ride view of the world of labor, life and love–a searing portrait of men at work and also at their worst.

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Ryan Lowell

About the Author

Ryan Lowell’s fiction has appeared in Portland Monthly MagazineWorker’s Write Journal and other publications. His story “Things Fall Apart” was a Glimmer Train short story award contest finalist. Freight is his first novel. He lives in South Portland, Maine, with his wife and two sons.

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