In the shadowlands of the American South, a man drives an untraceable car—black-on-black, near silent, built for vanishing. Behind the wheel: a reluctant courier forced into servitude, paying off a debt to men who deal in violence and live by no law but their own. To survive, he must keep moving. To be free, he must disappear entirely.
But as the miles add up, so do the ghosts. Each delivery drags him deeper into a world of myth, memory, and meaning—where found family, radical love, and defiant hope become his only compass.
The Song of the Midnight Rider is a gritty, heart-thrumming novel about the cost of freedom and the lengths we’ll go to for redemption. With echoes of No Country for Old Men, Jesus’ Son, and the folklore of the open road, Santí’s debut pulses with lyricism, velocity, and grace.