1974. Frank Downes is a young Londoner on the road in the USA who finds that leaving the past behind isn't so easy.
1974. The year of Nixon's resignation, Watergate and the Patti Hearst kidnapping. Frank Downes is a 24 year old Londoner living out his hitchhiking dreams across the USA. But Frank has unfinished business back in London. As his eventful journey takes him from New York City to the juke joints of Louisiana, the back roads of Texas and the fleshpots of Hollywood, he finds that conscience and responsibility cannot be avoided, and, to quote from a song of the time, you can travel on 10,000 miles and stay right where you are. A rollercoaster of a road novel, and a must read for rock, blues, and country music fans.
The first ten of sixteen chapters of Hit The Road, Frank, are currently available to view on this site. Respect and gratitude to Bradley Wind for the cover.