Breakfast of Champions

The Devil’s Road — CHAPTER 02: AN OKLAHOMA TRIPTYCH

Welcome to Issue #5 of The Devil’s Road, a serial novel following the exploits of Samantha Hart, a Sequoyah County Sheriff, full of vengeance and fury using her badge to hunt down her sister's killer as she uncovers a trail of bloodshed that coats the heartland.

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The Devil's Road

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And now, please enjoy Chapter 2 Issue 2 of … The Devil’s Road.

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In 2004 an Oklahoma Bureau of Investigations analyst discovered a crime pattern along the Interstate 40 corridor between Oklahoma and Mississippi. Subsequently, The Federal Bureau of Investigations (F.B.I.) started the Highway Serial Killings Initiative. They discovered over 500 bodies of women along the interstate highway system with more than 200 potential suspects, a trail of bloodshed that coats the heartland. The Devil’s Road is a serialized novel based on this horrific discovery.

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You never want to see them. They're meant as a warning, a harbinger—not of things to come, but of things that have already been. Red and blue police lights pulse across the face of Samantha Hart, who sits in her sheriff’s cruiser. But those lights aren’t hers. Reflected from the rearview mirror, they flash across her face. A moment ago, she was alone on this ridgeline overlooking the Old 64 Truck Stop. But now?

She hears the sound of water dripping. The shocks on the driver’s side release a light squeal as something in the backseat increases in mass. Samantha stiffens. The something slides from one side of the car to the other. A shadow forms in her peripheral vision, reflected in the rearview mirror. She’s not alone, at least not for the moment. She doesn’t want to, but she looks up into that mirror and sees her.