Nick Pente's life has just crashed. It's early dawn in the winter of 1957. He's hanging from the edge of legendary Route 66 in Northern Arizona, suspended over the snow-covered rails below. He shudders behind the steering wheel of his Diamond-T semi-truck, its enormous engine still humming. It dangles by no more than a splinter from an icy railroad bridge. As the Santa Fe Super Chief approaches below, he hears the horn blast. The bridge shakes. Nick watches and waits. He is aware. Somewhere behind him are those two men in the black Mercury. They had tailed him for his last thousand miles down...