Sorry for the late posting but I've just started a new job and I'm all over the place. :-P As a result, today's post has not been written by me but is instead a guest post by Peter Petrack. It's all about his new book
Wayfarers Highway. If you're looking for an epic story about a seemingly normal character then I think you've landed in the right place. Enjoy!
A camper travels the back roads of
America, but it is not what it seems. Pursued by powerful forces: a
master-mind, a maniac, and a terrorist, its crew wonders if they'll ever reach
Journey's end.
When Eloise Corwin - a longtime
patient in her desert hometown's infirmary - finds a wounded young traveler
sharing her sick room; she insists that he tell her about his adventures. The
young man, Orson Gregory, tells her how he found and stole a glowing gemstone,
hidden for decades beneath the government-built factory beside his family farm.
He tells her how he's been chased ever since - by mercenaries, by terrorists,
and by other, stranger enemies. He tells her how he threw in his lot with a
real adventurer, a mythology professor, an innkeeper, and a duo of hired guns
on a cross-country journey to clear his name and return home - something he's
currently failing to do. To reach safety, the motley travelers will first have
to deal with each other, evade the foes that follow their every move, and
tangle with other forces both strange and powerful, their fellow travelers on
the Wayfarers Highway.
About
the Author:
In addition to writing the Wayfarers Highway novels, Peter
Petrack is also a composer and performing trombonist. In recent years, he has
found growing success as a writer of Jazz, as well as Orchestral, Choral, and
Band Works. Between these two artistic businesses, Peter has frequently been
forced to write in the third person. He lives in Pennsylvania, where he is
constantly surrounded by pieces of paper.
In the
Author’s own words:
Wayfarers Highway is a story for
today. We live in a really weird time. A lot of people are confused and
frightened. Naturally, readers and writers turn to strange stories in these
kinds of times. The difference now is that a lot of the bizarre things in the
story can come directly from real life. I wanted to write that kind of story, a
legend for today – that’s something I’ve been calling it for a while. I wanted
all of the adventure of the big legends set in the modern world, with modern
themes, and modern characters.
I like that timeliness. It also made
the book difficult to write. I would never want to write something blatantly
for 2016, for example, something that a year from now would be obsolete. But
achieving the general early 21st Century setting was worth the
balancing act.
Wayfarers Highway is the end result of
nearly eight years of that kind of thinking. It’s a story
about an ordinary young man, named Orson Gregory, who steals a glowing rock
that he finds under a factory that was built decades ago on farmland his family
sold to the government. This ends Orson’s life as he knew it. People want the
rock he stole - strange people, and dangerous. Powerful enemies – mercenaries,
terrorists, and maniacs chase him across America. Orson’s only help comes from
a motley bunch of his fellow travelers, a hippie, an innkeeper, a mythology
professor, and hired guns. On the road, trying and failing to find a way to
return home, Orson is forced to face the truth that the world is stranger, more
complicated, and more dangerous than he ever imagined.
Here
are the purchase links:
