Gas Van Driver

Heath Arnhoff grows up in middle America as a middle-class youth with a fascination for the guts and glory of World War II. In the summer of 1967, he sets out in search of manhood, adventure, and a girl in San Francisco. Destiny puts him in a truck with Aleksandras, a tormented ex-Nazi in search of an exit. He will come of age on the road—a distinctive road that transports him across time and into the seething center of human horror and superhuman affection. "Gas Van Driver" is a slow-burn novel that spirals like a ball in a gravity well, pulling the protagonist inexorably into the atrocities of Nazi-occupied Poland. Thrown back again, he must confront his own guilt and the question of whether evil is stronger than good. In the long run, will humanity end in chaos or confront the radical evil at its core?