Frank H. (perryfran) reviewed on 8/13/2016 + 1223 more book reviews

C.J. Box continues to be one of my favorite thriller authors. I have read all of the Joe Pickett series and I read and enjoyed Badlands, a non-Pickett novel, a few months ago. Badlands is actually the second book featuring Cassie Dewell who is featured in The Highway along with Cody Hoyt. So I am kind of reading these non-Pickett stories in reverse sequence...I now need to read Back of Beyond which was the first novel to feature Hoyt!

Anyway, Highway was another excellent page-turner by Box. In it, two young girls are traveling to Omaha to meet their father for Thanksgiving but instead decide to go to Helena, Montana at the whim of the older girl whose ex-boyfriend now lives in Helena. The boyfriend, Justin, is the son of Cody Hoyt and apparently was included in the prior Hoyt novel along with the girls (that's what I get for reading a series in reverse order!). But the girls don't make it to Helena when their car breaks down...instead, they are kidnapped by a long-haul trucker and held captive where they are awaiting some nastiness to occur. When the girls lose contact with Justin, Cody heads south to try to find them. Then something totally unexpected happens that was a real shocker! Cassie in the meantime is waiting to hear from Cody and eventually also gets involved in the search for the missing girls.

This story was really gripping and included a set of very bad people involved in kidnapping young women along the highways. I was totally engrossed in the story and had to keep reading to see how it would end. A high recommendation again for Box!

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