The Gauntlet: The Novelization [PRE-ORDER]

By Michael Butler & Dennis Shryack
With A New Introduction by Michael Butler

*PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE NOW. 
BOOK Will be released on June 9th, 2026, and shipped on or before the release date. 

Burned-out Phoenix cop Ben Shockley gets what looks like a throwaway assignment: pick up a witness in Las Vegas and bring her back for a mob trial. The witness turns out to be Augustina "Gus" Mally, a sharp-tongued call girl who insists she knows too much to arrive alive.

At first Ben thinks it's just paranoia. Then the bullets start flying.

As they cross the desert toward Phoenix, the trip becomes a rolling ambush, with bikers, hitmen, and even fellow cops trying to turn their escort into a funeral procession. Realizing they've been set up as disposable pawns, Ben and Gus barrel toward the city in a last-ditch run through a gauntlet of gunfire.

From 1972 through 1985, screenwriters Michael Butler & Dennis Shryack wrote films that included The Gauntlet, Pale Rider, The Car, Code of Silence, Flashpoint, Bells (aka Murder by Phone) and more. Encyclopocalypse Publications is proud to reissue this long-out-of-print novelization of The Gauntlet, now featuring an all-new introduction by Michael Butler.