Stewie McKay thought he knew hard work. As a heavy tow truck operator in Saint John, New Brunswick, he spent years crawling through snowstorms, wrecks, freezing rain, and highway disasters under the glow of flashing amber lights. In the rough saltwater cities of Atlantic Canada, towing isn't just a job. It's survival. At Colonial City Towing, every radio call could turn deadly. One moment it's a simple breakdown.
The next it's a rolled logging truck, a jackknifed tractor trailer, or a fatal crash buried in a Maritime snowstorm. Through endless recoveries, sleepless nights, and brutal working conditions, Stewie and the crew battle weather, wreckage, addiction, injuries, and the emotional toll that comes with living life on the hook. Alongside unforgettable characters like Ronnie Gibbons, Andre Wright, Ricky Moyer, Marie, Howie, and Hester, Stewie slowly realizes the job is destroying his body piece by piece.
But walking away from towing might be even harder than surviving it. Raw, hilarious, heartbreaking, and brutally honest, Chronicles of Stewie McKay: Professional Hooker pulls readers deep into the blue-collar world of heavy recovery towing in Atlantic Canada. Everybody wants to be a hooker... Until they gotta do hooker stuff. Perfect for fans of Highway Through Hell, Heavy Rescue: 401, gritty working-class fiction, and realistic blue-collar storytelling.
Stewie McKay thought he knew hard work. As a heavy tow truck operator in Saint John, New Brunswick, he spent years crawling through snowstorms, wrecks, freezing rain, and highway disasters under the glow of flashing amber lights. In the rough saltwater cities of Atlantic Canada, towing isn't just a job. It's survival. At Colonial City Towing, every radio call could turn deadly. One moment it's a simple breakdown.
The next it's a rolled logging truck, a jackknifed tractor trailer, or a fatal crash buried in a Maritime snowstorm. Through endless recoveries, sleepless nights, and brutal working conditions, Stewie and the crew battle weather, wreckage, addiction, injuries, and the emotional toll that comes with living life on the hook. Alongside unforgettable characters like Ronnie Gibbons, Andre Wright, Ricky Moyer, Marie, Howie, and Hester, Stewie slowly realizes the job is destroying his body piece by piece.
But walking away from towing might be even harder than surviving it. Raw, hilarious, heartbreaking, and brutally honest, Chronicles of Stewie McKay: Professional Hooker pulls readers deep into the blue-collar world of heavy recovery towing in Atlantic Canada. Everybody wants to be a hooker... Until they gotta do hooker stuff. Perfect for fans of Highway Through Hell, Heavy Rescue: 401, gritty working-class fiction, and realistic blue-collar storytelling.