John Rector
His short fiction has appeared in The Seattle Review, Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, Black October, The Edge, FlashQuake (1st place for fiction), and 42nd Parallel where he won the Porterhouse Prize for best fiction. He lives in Omaha, Nebraska.
Books by John Rector
The Cold Kiss
The Getaway meets A Simple Plan in this noir thriller. A young couple pick up a money-flashing hitchhiker during a blizzard and end up snowed in and fighting for their lives at a rural roadside motel…
All Nate and Sara want is a new life in a new town, away from the crime and poverty of their past. So, after being approached at a roadside diner by a man offering $500 for a ride to Omaha, they wonder if their luck might be changing.
At first it seems like easy money, but within a few hours the man is dead.
Now, forced off the road by a blizzard and trapped in a run-down motel on the side of a deserted highway, Nate and Sara begin to uncover the man’s secrets. Who he was, how he died, and most importantly, why he was carrying two million dollars in his suitcase.
Before they know it, Nate and Sara are fighting for their lives, and in the end, each has to decide just how far they are willing to go to survive.
Rights sold:
Tor Books (North American)
UK: Simon & Schuster (UK/Commonwealth)
Germany: Rowohlt
Netherlands: Boekerij
Film/TV: Jane Startz Productions
Pub date: Summer 2010