Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - at 49, J. W. Pickett has been a long distance truck driver for too many years and he wants out - but can't afford to quit - but then on a haul to Boston he and his partner meet Frank, who has been given 24 hours by the mob to find a way to deliver a shipment of drugs to California, and so he takes a gamble that can risk everything. 225 pp.