This image is the cover for the book King of the Road, The Brotherhood of the Wheel

King of the Road, The Brotherhood of the Wheel

A secret order of truckers and nomads must stop a sadistic clown cult in this “insidiously creepy” urban fantasy series (Wall Street Journal).

The Brotherhood of the Wheel has long defended America’s roads and rails from unnatural threats. Now they face a deadly menace unlike anything they have encountered before. A string of roadside murders and mutilations stretches back decades—and leads to a cult of killer clowns who are far more than urban legends. Greasepaint and lunatic grins are the last things their victims ever see.

Meanwhile, trucker Jimmy Aussapile and his allies must also face a violent civil war within an outlaw biker gang long associated with the Brotherhood, as well as run-ins with a rival gang led by a fierce werewolf biker chick who fights tooth and claw to protect her pack.

From Depression-era hobo camps to a modern-day trailer park hiding unearthly secrets, fear lurks just beyond the headlights for the Kings of the Road.

R. S. Belcher

R.S. Belcher won the Grand Prize in the Strange New Worlds SF-writing contest. He runs Cosmic Castle, a comic book shop in Roanoke, Virginia, and is the author of The Six-Gun Tarot.

Tom Doherty Associates