Lowdown Road, Scott Von Doviak
Lowdown Road, Scott Von Doviak
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Lowdown Road

Author: Scott Von Doviak

Narrator: L.J. Ganser

Unabridged: 7 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/11/2023

Categories: Fiction, Crime, Southern


Synopsis

One of "The Most Wanted Crime Novels of 2023" —Crimefictionlover.com

Join a heart-racing road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid the cops and criminals hot on their tails.

It's the summer of '74 . . . Richard Nixon has resigned from office, CB radios are the hot new thing, and in the great state of Texas two cousins hatch a plan to drive $1 million worth of stolen weed to Idaho, where some lunatic is gearing up to jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket-powered motorcycle. But with a vengeful sheriff on their tail and the revered and feared marijuana kingpin of Central Texas out to get his stash back, Chuck and Dean are in for the ride of their lives—if they can make it out alive . . .

Scott Von Doviak, longtime pop-culture journalist for The A. V. Club, Film Threat, the Hollywood Reporter, and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, made a splash with his debut novel, Charlesgate Confidential, which Stephen King called "terrific" and "a fun machine . . . the white-knuckle kind." With Lowdown Road, he cements his reputation for pedal-to-the-metal storytelling that also makes you think about just who we are and where our darker roads might lead us.

About Scott Von Doviak

Scott Von Doviak is the author of Charlesgate Confidential and three books on film and pop culture, including the acclaimed Hick Flicks: The Rise and Fall of Redneck Cinema. He covers television for The Onion's AV Club and is a former film critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He lives in Austin, Texas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jamie on September 14, 2023

Lowdown Road is a real barrel of monkeys and delivers exactly what it promises, with its over the top crime spree, Smokey and the Bandit style cross country chase and general mayhem featuring two devil-may-care cousins with a nose for trouble and the ladies at the center of it all. Hot on their tail......more

Goodreads review by Blair on July 27, 2023

Lowdown Road is the equivalent of having dessert for dinner, but the dessert is 250 pounds of sweet Mary Jane🚬 As Scott says in the afterward, this novel reads like a 'Hick Flick.' Sherrif Giddings also rivals such psycho sheriffs the likes of Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me and Stephen King's S......more

Goodreads review by Tom on July 08, 2023

Pure, awesome entertainment... 70s style! Really enjoyed this one, it's the perfect summer crime caper.......more

Goodreads review by Amy on July 14, 2023

Read it in one day, total action-packed thrill ride. I can see why people compare it to "Smokey and The Bandit" similar themes. Two brothers, down on their luck, decide to steal a jackpot of marijuana from the local drug dealer and drive it up from TX to an event in Twin Falls, ID where Evel Knievel......more

Goodreads review by Benji's Books on January 15, 2024

A love-letter to the cross-country chase films of the 1970s with a great sountrack and a fantastic Third Act.......more