Bonnie and Claude

After getting fired for stealing the cash box, Claude Gibber, a lazy hand at a dairy farm, turns to highway robbery. He starts by targeting vacationers traveling in recreational vehicles on Route 66 in Missouri. Accosting tourists parked alongside the highway, he discovers grand larceny is far more rewarding than petty theft.



Making believe he is Clyde Barrow he envisions Miss Bonnie Parker, her red hair caressing her cheek in soft arcs from the open windows of his imaginary 1934 Ford sedan. In order to take her heart and smile away from Clyde, Claude must hone his skills to prove he is a better gangster and loverboy.



Little does he know, while he’s living out a fantasy while eking out a living, someone else has begun stalking the historic highway.



Excerpt:



Claude Gibber drove across Route 66 drumming his hands on the steering wheel to the beat of Foggy Mountain Breakdown and made believe, once again, that he’s the notorious gangster Clyde Barrow. He glanced over at the passenger seat and envisioned Bonnie Parker, her red hair caressing her cheek in soft arcs from the open windows of his imaginary 1934 Ford sedan. The pretty red dress she’d worn just for him completed the picture.



He smiled. Waved his ballcap out the window at an oncoming motorist. “I’m Clyde. This here’s Bonnie. We’re bank robbers.” He clamped his back teeth around a wooden matchstick.



Grinning, he looked at Bonnie again. His jaw went slack. No matter how much he tried to please her he still couldn’t earn her love and affection. He longed for one of her smiles, the ones she only gave to her real loverboy.