{"product_id":"highway-work-max-osso-9798253168073","title":"Highway Work: Ontario Noir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHe drove a million kilometres without a single incident.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor Kral has been behind the wheel of a Kenworth for eighteen years. Long-haul. Cross-province. Silent highways, predawn service centres, industrial corridors most people never stop in. He is infrastructure. He is invisible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDolores is a woman caught inside a network she can no longer leave - moved from city to city across the 401 corridor, visiting men she would rather not know, carrying things she would rather not carry. Raymond controls the network. Raymond controls her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor offers her a ride. Then another. Then he begins to understand what she is doing. And who she is doing it for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne by one, the men Dolores visits stop answering their phones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeven cities. Seven stops. Seven notes left behind, each reading the same four words: \u003ci\u003eMay God be with you.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the bodies are finally connected - Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Owen Sound, Peterborough, Oshawa, Sarnia, Toronto - the trial that follows becomes something no one expected: a quiet reckoning with addiction, poverty, complicity, and the people society forgets before they are gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHighway Work\u003c\/i\u003e is the second novel in \u003cb\u003eThe Work Series\u003c\/b\u003e - a crime fiction series that begins on the streets of Toronto and ends somewhere much darker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Work Series: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook 1 - Maintenance Work \u003ci\u003e(Toronto Noir)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook 2 - Highway Work \u003ci\u003e(Ontario Noir)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook 3 - Train Work \u003ci\u003e(Canada Noir)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook 4 - Intercontinental Work \u003ci\u003e(Global Noir)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook 5 - Dead Work \u003ci\u003e(Prison Noir)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Max Osso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798253168073\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Max Osso","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172562804991,"sku":"9798253168073","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/highway-work-max-osso-9798253168073","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}