It was billed as the Main Street of America and the Mother Road. It was a highway of commerce, both legal and illicit. It was traveled by vacationing families and serial killers, truck drivers and celebrities, vagabonds and gangsters, the weary and the wicked. It was the hunting grounds of criminals and the battlegrounds of racial violence and gangland strife. This was Bloody 66.

In the era of renaissance Route 66 is often viewed as a neon lit museum with an overlay of Disneyland. In this new book by internationally acclaimed author Jim Hinckley peels back that thin veneer and takes readers on a journey through the shadows on the National Old Trails Road, the original Main Street of America, and Route 66 as well as in communities along that highways corridor.