Ebook Thriller Features Polygamist Serial Killer

Online, December 27, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Smashwords ebooks has distributed a new novel by Daniel Koehler to the major ebook channels.

The Sleeping Cab focuses on the darker side of polygamy through the eyes of a radical polygamist trucker, whose strict religion impels him to sacrifice prostitutes along Interstate 40 in order to save their souls.

The Sleeping Cab is a well-written, gritty book-and after you read it, you may wake up screaming when an eighteen-wheeler roars past.

Dusty Richards , two-time Spur award-winning Western author of Comanche Moon and The Horse-Creek Incident

Synopsis. To FBI senior agent, JOE MAC ADAMS, the "Atonement Killer" is a psychopath who scrawls the word across his victim's torsos in their own blood. However, to troubled rookie cop, JOLENE DYKES, the killer is a routine hooker/john sting gone terribly wrong.

Polygamist trucker, NARVEL LAFFERTY, is given a mission by his cult's prophet to save fifty souls. However, when his efforts fail to persuade his marks to convert voluntarily-either by baptism or marriage into his communal family, Narvel turns to "blood atonement," an obscure cult doctrine whereby the souls of grievous sinners may be saved by spilling their blood and then baptizing their corpses.

Held prisoner in Narvel's sleeping cab, Jolene is beaten and raped, but her police self-defense skills ultimately allow her to escape. Put on medical leave to recover from her rape and head wounds, Jolene becomes the FBI's first eyewitness in the Atonement Killer case, although she soon begins to exhibit increasingly irrational, aggressive behavior.

Frustrated by the FBI's plodding slowness in pursuing the Atonement Killer, Jolene obsessively pursues him across Interstate 40, weaving together the clues to his identity with the aid of her alcoholic cop/boyfriend. Together, they trap the killer ahead of the FBI at the famous Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, and there Jolene battles for both her life and her soul.

About the Author. Daniel Koehler has worked in finance on Wall Street, in regional commercial banking, and as founder of a firm that designs financial software. He has authored four novels, a volume of short stories, and seven screenplays. He attended Leopold-Franzens Universität in Innsbruck, Austria, and is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas. His other novels are available at Amazon Kindle Store, Nookbooks by Barnes and Noble, Apple ibooks, Kobo, Sony Reader, Smashwords, and Diesel.

You may read a sample of "The Sleeping Cab" at Daniel Koehler's Smashwords Profile Page http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/DanielKoehler

Discover other titles by Daniel Koehler:
Unbankerly Behavior http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/23344
Flyover Country http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/20267
Splitting Washington http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/19407
Three Stories About Extremity http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/20971
Three Stories About Book Folk http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/21009
Three Stories About Eccentricity http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/21112
Three Stories About Misunderstandings http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/21023

Also. check out Daniel Koehler's Literary web site: http://www.danielkoehler.bizland.com/