I-35

“Tough, incisive, tough, evocative, tough, adroit, tough. Selmont will take you on a genuinely gripping journey down a highway that will inspire you to lock your car as automatically as you buckle your seatbelt. Hardboiled fans, you’ve been waiting for this one. A nifty piece of work by a talented writer.”

—JOHN LUTZ, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, AUTHOR OF ‘SINGLE WHITE FEMALE’

“ Selmont has created a page-turning thriller full of bizarre and unique characters that draw us further down the road to oblivion. He’s a writer to keep on your radar.” —MALCOLM CAMPBELL, SPIN MAGAZINE

“ Selmont’s I-35 is a car trip with Jim Thompson and the Brothers Grimm down a specific highway through the dark heart of America.” —DON BAJEMA, AUTHOR OF ‘BOY IN THE AIR’ AND ‘REACH’

I-35 A NOVEL

I-35 is the story of David, a loner in his late 20s from New York City who suffers from blackout migraines and has a penchant for painkillers. He wakes up one morning, freez¬ing in the backseat of his car, 1,500 miles from home, with no idea how he got there. After hearing a horrifying voicemail, he embarks on a harrowing journey through America’s heartland, searching for his estranged brother and his brother’s wife, while attempting to piece together his own fractured memory.

Along the road, David meets a cast of odd characters who become suspects in his clouded and paranoid mind. And just as the clues begin to add up, a chance encounter at a seedy Oklahoma diner leads him to Shawna—a beautiful girl, shrouded in mystery, who escorts him down a vertiginous path to the end of the I-35 highway…where a shocking truth is revealed