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The Lore Hunter: The Devils Highway
Paperback
Series: The Lore Hunter, Book 2
ISBN13: 9781969770296
Publisher: Clifton Wilcox
Published: Apr 21 2026
Pages: 608
Weight: 1.31
Height: 1.35 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The Lore Hunter: The Devil's Highway by Clifton Wilcox is a tense, atmospheric thriller that blends investigative crime fiction with creeping, existential horror. The novel opens in the Sonoran Desert, where seasoned highway patrol lieutenant Daniel Ruiz encounters something that should not exist: a newly formed dirt road branching off a well-known stretch of State Route 85. What begins as a routine patrol turns into a deeply unsettling experience as Ruiz's instruments fail, his radio fills with an impossible voice, and the desert itself seems to reshape around him. His disappearance, along with his patrol vehicle, occurs in a way that defies logic, captured on camera yet leaving no physical trace behind.
From this inciting incident, the narrative shifts to Special Agent Rebecca Ibarra of the Arizona Bureau of Investigation, who is tasked with unraveling the mystery. What she finds is not a simple case of a missing officer, but a convergence of anomalies: corrupted GPS data, unexplained audio input within the cruiser's system, and surveillance footage that shows Ruiz vanishing between frames. As Ibarra digs deeper, the investigation resists every conventional explanation. There are no tire tracks, no debris, and no evidence of a crash or abduction, only the unsettling suggestion that Ruiz followed something off the road and into a place that should not exist.
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