Highway of Bones

Highway of Bones by Richard Crawford When a series of brutal highway killings begins carving a trail of terror across America's freight routes, FBI Special Agent Daniel Mercer is called back into the field — and straight into a nightmare he thought he buried years ago. The killer leaves no witnesses, no fingerprints, and no pattern… except one: he's always one mile ahead of the law. The trucking world whispers his name like a legend. The Phantom. But when the killer targets Mercer directly — taunting him through CB chatter, staging horrific crash scenes, and stalking Mercer's daughter — the hunt becomes deeply personal. Every clue drags Mercer closer to a truth he doesn't want to face: he crossed paths with the Phantom long before the first body hit the asphalt. Now the killer wants closure. On his terms. With the nation's highways shut down by storms and panic spreading among long-haul drivers, Mercer forms an uneasy alliance with his sharp-witted partner, Agent Lina Vega, and together they plunge into the darkest corners of truck stops, backroads, and decoy rigs built to conceal a predator. Their pursuit becomes a deadly chess match across interstates and rural routes — a race against a man who kills for art, for control, and for the thrill of staying unseen. With each mile, Mercer is forced to confront the ghosts that broke him… and the one ghost still alive who wants him dead. When the final confrontation arrives at an abandoned cabin off a forgotten service road, justice and vengeance collide in a showdown neither man can walk away from unchanged. Cinematic, relentless, and pulse-pounding, Highway of Bones is a high-velocity thriller about obsession, redemption, and the price of hunting monsters on the open road.