The Brotherhood of the Wheel

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Label

The Brotherhood of the Wheel

Statement of responsibility

R.S. Belcher

Creator

• Belcher, R. S

Subject

• Fantasy fiction
• Automobile travel -- Fiction
• Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction
• Policewomen -- Fiction
• Missing children -- Fiction
• Truck drivers -- Fiction
• Horror fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Horror fiction
• Fantasy fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"In 1119 A.D., a group of nine crusaders became known as the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon--a militant monastic order charged with protecting pilgrims and caravans traveling on the roads to and from the Holy Land. In time, the Knights Templar would grow in power and, ultimately, be laid low. But a small offshoot of the Templars endure and have returned to the order's original mission: to defend the roads of the world and guard those who travel on them. Theirs is a secret line of knights: truckers, bikers, taxi hacks, state troopers, bus drivers, RV gypsies--any of the folks who live and work on the asphalt arteries of America. They call themselves the Brotherhood of the Wheel. Jimmy Aussapile is one such knight. He's driving a big rig down South when a promise to a ghostly hitchhiker sets him on a quest to find out the terrible truth behind a string of children gone missing all across the country. The road leads him to Lovina Hewitt, a skeptical Louisiana State Police investigator working the same case and, eventually, to a forgotten town that's not on any map--and to the secret behind the eerie Black-Eyed Kids said to prowl the highways"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction