The Editorial — Doug White

This is the second book in the Jake Winters series, beginning with The Load. Jake is a cross-country truck driver with a spotless driving record, a narrow brush with death in Texas notwithstanding. He covers up to 130,000 miles a year. Beyond driving alone, this bachelor from western N.Y. has no back-home family worries. Then he meets the boy, Peter Stevenson. The complications surrounding the early life of this boy work out to change Jake's simplistic life and outlook forever. Jake picks up an antiquated piece of mining equipment from the small town of Slippery Gulch, Montana, forty miles north of Butte, destined for Reno, Nevada. Jake considers himself a convenience Christian. He believes in God until his faith is challenged to a breaking point. Somebody above the level of company management finagles Jake into a special assignment. Whether it's God or the devil is not clear. Peter Stevenson, Jake's first passenger ever, convinces Jake that he is the answer to Peter's dying pr