Chapter 46
June 6th
12:03 a.m.
On the Road
The world around him was black.
The man was a long-haul trucker driving through the night. He was below Florence, South Carolina, in that part of the state where the exits were few and far between. The dark highway stretched away in the glare of his headlights. His plan was to reach northern Florida before he got off the road, maybe Jacksonville, maybe St. Augustine if he could make it that far.
It had been a terrible day, maybe the worst in his memory. But life went on. He was moving a truckload of canned Virginia pork products destined for the docks at Port Everglades. It wasn’t going to drive itself there.
He lit a cigarette and turned on the radio. The new President, a man the trucker had never heard of before tonight, had just been int
