Moriarty, New Mexico, is about as far as Logan Pierce got before the money and the El Camino gave out. He‘d hoped for a clean start in life as a field mechanic working for any company willing to pay top dollar for his skills in the oil fields of West Texas. Low on funds and out of options, he begins a change of course in his mechanic career and takes a local job as a technician at Duggan’s Truck Stop.

The truck stop is a miniature city within a city that has all the luxuries for a home away from home feel for the over-the-road truck driver. Under it all, Logan discovers there is also a dark side, which people claim is operated by the Dixie Mafia. Then there is the persistent rumor that affiliates of the Mafia are looking for a quarter-million in missing cash skimmed from over a five-year time frame. The job was meant to be a temporary solution but that was before Amy Hauser entered the picture and presented him with additional problems.

They want nothing more than to leave New Mexico for a new life, but then again…there’s that rumor of a quarter-million in missing mob cash. And Logan just may well have discovered where it’s hidden, but soon finds that some people want it more.

“Blown to hell…running down Hell’s Highway with a jug of Jack, a bottle of pills, and a blood-soaked .45 automatic. That’s how life ends up: running helter-skelter from the cops with a screaming broad in the trunk and a shot-to-hell corpse to keep her company. I smile, throw back the bottle, and suck in the burning amber fluid. I wouldn’t have it any other way…”

Thompson returns with a fistful of stories that delve deep into the world of Crime Fiction. Follow along the Hell’s Highway of Thompson’s vision of crime, women, evil men doing good things or vice-versa. The stories are fiction but they could well be real.