The highway kind : tales of fast cars, desperate drivers, and dark roads / edited by Patrick Millikin.

Preface / by Patrick Millikin -- Test drive / by Ben H. Winters -- Power Wagon / by C. J. Box -- Burnt matches / by Michael Connelly -- Runs good / by Kelly Braffet -- Night run / by Walace Stroby -- What you were fighting for / by James Sallis -- The triple black 'cuda / by George Pelecanos -- Fogmeister / by Diana Gabaldon -- Whipperwill and back / by Patterson Hood -- Driving to Geronimo's grave / by Joe R. Lansdale -- Hannah Martinez / by Sara Gran -- Apache youth / by Ace Atkins -- The two falcons / by Gary Phillips -- The kill switch / by Willy Vlautin -- The pleasure of God / by Luis Alberto Urrea.

Thrilling crime stories about cars, driving, and the road from the world's bestselling and critically acclaimed writers. Like fiction, cars take us into a different world: from the tony enclaves of upper crust society to the lowliest barrio; from muscle car-driving con men to hardscrabble kids on the road during the Great Depression; from a psychotic traveling salesman to a Mexican drug lord who drives a tricked-out VW Bus. We all share the roads, and our cars link us together. Including entirely new stories from Michael Connelly, C.J. Box, George Pelecanos, Diana Gabaldon, James Sallis, Ace Atkins, Luis Alberto Urrea, Sara Gran, Ben H. Winters, and Joe Lansdale, THE HIGHWAY KIND is a street-level look at modern America, as seen through one of its national obsessions.