COLD HIGHWAYS: THE DEAD is the first part in the cold highways trilogy. Spanning across thirty years and between the lands of the living and the dead, Cold Highways is a dark fantasy that follows the stories of ordinary people drawn together by the events that claimed their lives. Featuring dramatic set pieces and heart-stopping action, the novel explores themes of separation and mortality; following a group of characters that are ultimately doomed by the burden of their own memories. COLD HIGHWAYS BOOK ONE: THE DEAD The Plateaus are a wasteland, a place where things go to be forgotten... It is nearly five years since the accident that claimed Tristen's life and now, like so many others, he is searching for a way back to those has he left behind. Trapped in a world no better than hell itself, the people of Shrive have lost all but the faintest hope. Only Tristen is brave enough to leave the safety of their city and head into the wilderness beyond, taking with him two men - One: a trusted friend, the other: a stranger known only as the Tracer. In the ruins that await, it is their endeavour to find some small shred of salvation. Or perhaps even the very key that will unravel the mysteries of their imprisonment and the secrets of the Plateaus. Wheels are turning though, in this world and the last. Larry Crest awakes by the roadside in the twisted wreck of a car - the sole survivor of a horrific accident. By impossible odds he is alive and unharmed, stumbling from the wreckage with the only clue he has to his past - a battered briefcase, covered in scars. As Larry struggles to learn of the events that brought him here, it seems his path is somehow inexorably linked with the prisoners of that other place. There are bonds and bridges that cannot be severed, as all the while a far crueller soul tears through the desert with a gun in his hand...