OPEN SHIFT

About the Book

Jason McCoy is the Bay Area’s most frustrated cab driver. In one day he is evicted from his whole-in-the-wall apartment, kicked out of the band that he co-founded, and stood up by his would-be girlfriend, Susan. Broke, lonely and bored, he decides to pick up an Open Shift at the cab company where he works.

Meanwhile, Michael Taylor, a ruthless sociopath on a murderous cross country rampage makes his way to Marin County, in the Bay Area. There, he charms Susan’s shallow friend Nikki and Susan into a night on the town in San Francisco, full of partying and clubbing.

As Jason goes through a hellish night behind the wheel of the cab, he is unknowingly on a collision coarse with the sociopath from hell.

About the Author

Dustin Garner enlisted in the United States Marine Corps., in 1980, following graduation from Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri. After finishing his military tour he returned to Columbia where he graduated from college with a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration. He also graduated from Southeastern Paralegal Institute in Dallas, Texas, attended film and video school in Northern California. He has worked as a loan processor, claims adjustor, cab driver, factory worker, bartender, waiter, ranch hand and correctional officer. Open Shift is his first novella and the first draft of the story was written while Mr. Garner was working as a cab driver in the California Bay Area.