County Road 2400: A Midwest Noir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798253989739)

COUNTY ROAD 2400

One night of "mailbox metal" was supposed to be a reset. Instead, it became a life sentence.

Illinois, 1998. Tommy Cancio and Todd Wells are fueled by cheap beer, jagged lines of cocaine, and the midnight fog of Champaign County. The mission is simple: a high-speed pass and the satisfying ping of a baseball bat against a rural mailbox.

But when the bat hits something wet and heavy on County Road 2400, the music stops.

What follows is a desperate, mud-caked crawl into a different kind of darkness. From the suffocating rows of unharvested corn to a concrete hole beneath an abandoned Indiana burger stand, Tommy discovers that the Midwest doesn't just grow crops-it buries secrets.

Trapped with half a million dollars in drug money and a silent "gentle giant" for a jailer, Tommy must confront the ghosts of his past-and the very real predator coming to collect.

In the heart of the Heartland, the distance between a "good time" and a shallow grave is shorter than you think.