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The Night Road

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Uncovering his hometown’s dirty secrets might get him killed… After his PI business collapses, Wade Rivers returns to rural Virginia to bury his mother. To some, he’s a washed-up failure. To other...
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  • 11 August 2026
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Uncovering his hometown's dirty past might just get him killed...


Wade Rivers returns to his rural hometown to bury his mother. The timing is grimly convenient—his private investigation business has just collapsed, and it feels fitting that life would spit him out right where it all began.


To some locals, Wade is nothing more than a washed up PI whose failures confirmed what they always believed. To others, he’s the man behind one heroic act no one can quite forget. One of those few, a reclusive heir from the town’s wealthiest family, hires Wade during his brief return home to investigate a circle of powerful men hiding terrible crimes.


Wade agrees, having always suspected the local police are anything but clean. And it doesn’t help that his father, a bitter, broken man, left scars on the town that still linger. But the closer Wade gets to the truth, the corruption becomes darker than he ever dared to imagine…and it might just be staining Wade, too.


The Night Road is the first book in the Wade Rivers series, a gritty, relentless rural noir perfect for fans of Jack Reacher and Quinn Colson.

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Price: $19.99
Pages: 318
Publisher: Vinci Books Ltd
Imprint: Vinci Books Ltd
Series: Wade Rivers
Publication Date: 11 August 2026
Trim Size: 7.80 X 5.08 in
ISBN: 9781036714444
Format: Paperback
BISACs: FICTION / Crime, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Adventure / action fiction
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Barry has had more than 50 short stories and poems featured in print and online publications. He is the author multiple series, including It Falls Apart and the Cooper M. Reid series, as well as titles such as Bound, Break Every Chain, As Far Away as Possible, and From Below. He was also the winner of the 2012 Amazon contest "Write a Dead Man Novel" which awarded him a contract with 47 North to write the 18th installment of Amazon's Dead Man series, Streets of Blood. Barry also wrote the mobile-based Choose Your Adventure game, Buried, currently available on Steam and in the Apple Store. His fiction as appeared in publications as varied as a Norton anthology to a horror anthology thematically based on the Wizard of Oz.
Barry's stories are typically going to be a little spooky, if not downright scary (but this is not always the case). But he also offers glimmers of hope here and there. Some of his work could be categorized as Christian fiction, though there are typically elements of the paranormal and horror running throughout.
Barry works as a ghostwriter and lives in Virginia with his wife, three kids, and too many pets.